hackamore

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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

Deftly seizing one by the nose, the girl forced a rope "hackamore" she had brought with her into its mouth, and cast off its hobbles.

From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard

He wore no spurs; and as for Surry, he had no bridle and bit, but a hackamore instead.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto

The only clothing that iron-gray pony had on during that fourteen-mile ride was a hackamore, and the only clothing Whitey had on was a night-shirt.

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

The big blue leaned back, crouching on his haunches as the man put on the hackamore.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)