hackamore

American  

[hak-uh-mawr, -mohr] / ˈhæk əˌmɔr, -ˌmoʊr /

noun

1. a simple looped bridle, by means of which controlling pressure is exerted on the nose of a horse, used chiefly in breaking colts.

2. Western U.S. any of several forms of halter used especially for breaking horses.

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hackamore British  

/ ˈhækəˌmɔː /

noun

1. a rope or rawhide halter used for unbroken foals

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Etymology

Origin of hackamore

1840–50, alteration (by folk etymology) of Spanish jáquima headstall < Arabic shaqīmah

Example Sentences

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

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)

You better take off your boots and rub some feeling into your feet while I make a hackamore for that horse.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto

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)

I'm going to ride him to-day with a hackamore; and you watch him perform, old man!

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto