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

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.

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)

Tying the hackamore about her waist, she took a single deep breath of reassurance and stepped out into the river.

From The Mucker by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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)