hackamore
Americannoun
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a simple looped bridle, by means of which controlling pressure is exerted on the nose of a horse, used chiefly in breaking colts.
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Western U.S. any of several forms of halter used especially for breaking horses.
noun
Etymology
Origin of hackamore
1840–50, alteration (by folk etymology) of Spanish jáquima headstall < Arabic shaqīmah
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
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
Dade went on tying the hackamore with a haste that might be called anxious.
From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto
He had fashioned a hackamore for each and they stood tied to the corral bars.
From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)
A band of colts were in the circular corral to be gentled to rope, saddle and hackamore.
From The Ramblin' Kid by Bowman, Earl Wayland
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