hackamore

Example Sentences

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So Williams plans to stop calling a rope a rawhide riata and not use words like hackamore, tapaderas and cinch ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boy, still grasping the hackamore in his left hand, with his right threw the saddle blanket over the animal's back.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

The cowboy who had him in tow took an extra dally around the saddle horn as the Texan, hackamore in hand, felt his way inch by inch along the taut lead-rope.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

I didn't have to say no more, for I had a hackamore on Mike's attention right there, and he quit climbin' the "G" string and put up his box.

From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Dade went on tying the hackamore with a haste that might be called anxious.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto