cheek strap
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Sim Gage had sprung forward and caught the cheek strap of the nearest horse.
From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Hough, Emerson
He seized the cheek strap of the buckskin's bridle and swung up, while the others watched the horse running out into the moonlit river.
From I Conquered by Titus, Harold
An instant and Banion had the cheek strap.
From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson
The nose and cheek strap worn by the woman and the trail-wrappings about her head allowed only a pair of black eyes to be seen.
From Love of Life and Other Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
He caught the cheek strap of the bridle, and motioned us away as we would have helped him at the horse's head.
From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson
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