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Headgear for a horse
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hackamore
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading [syn: halter ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hackamore can refer to: The classic hackamore (Spanish: jaquima ) of the vaquero tradition, featuring a bosal noseband The mechanical hackamore Any one of a number of designs of bitless bridle , sometimes also referred to as "Hackamores," referencing any ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
halter for breaking horses, 1850, American English, of uncertain origin. OED and Klein suggests a corruption of Spanish jaquima (earlier xaquima ) "halter, headstall of a horse," which Klein suggests is from Arabic shakimah "bit of a bridle, curb, restraint." ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hackamore \Hack"a*more\ (h[a^]k"[.a]*m[=o]r), n. [Cf. Sp. jaquima headstall of a halter.] A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a kind of bridle with no bit
Usage examples of hackamore.
One fore foot was strapped up, a hackamore or bitless bridle was adjusted in place, and he was allowed to arise.
He held the mecate while Rawlins undid the sideropes from the hackamore and knelt and tied them to the front hobbles.
To have attempted to place a hackamore upon any of the wild creatures in the corral would have been the height of foolishness--only a well-sped riata in the hands of a strong man could have captured one of these.
When they were done the horses stood in the potrero or stepped about trailing their hackamore ropes over the ground with such circumspection not to tread upon them and snatch down their sore noses that they moved with an air of great elegance and seemliness.
The sun winked on polished bright-work, the mace-studs and hackamore bosals that left the jaws of the carnivorous mounts free to raven and tear.
Both mules were outfitted with jaguima or hackamore halters, made of heavier braided rawhide, with a thick bozal or nose-pincher instead of a bit.
John Grady followed him in and stood the saddle on the ground and went back out and brought in a handful of ropes and hackamores and squatted to sort them.
Right after he acquired her and the mule Buck-or they acquired him-he discarded the savage curb bit Learner had used (salvaging the metal) and had the Jones Brothers' harnessmaker convert the bridle into a hackamore.