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hackamore

[hak-uh-mawr, -mohr] / ˈhæk əˌmɔr, -ˌmoʊr /


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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

Tied to a bush, by a hackamore, was an iron-gray colt, the fastest on the ranch.

From Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by Hart, William S.

You better take off your boots and rub some feeling into your feet while I make a hackamore for that horse.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto

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)

From the consulate he went to a local stock-yard and purchased a miserable, flea-bitten, dejected saddle mule, together with a dilapidated old stock saddle with a crupper, and a well-worn horse-hair hackamore.

From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)




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