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

A hackamore with a piece of halter rope attached to it hung across the upper bar.

From The Mucker by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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

When at last hackamore and saddle were in place, and the bay stood trembling and sweating, Phil wiped the perspiration from his own forehead and turned to the stranger.

From When A Man's A Man by Wright, Harold Bell