snubbing-post

"Oh, yes, I can lasso a snubbing-post that can't get out of the way!" he retorted.

Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924

Instantly Devil stopped and meekly followed Roosevelt to the snubbing-post, where he was tied up for a period of 'gentling.'

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

East of the ranch-house beside a patch of kitchen-garden, stood the strongly made circular horse-corral, with a snubbing-post in the middle, and at some distance from it the larger cow-corral for the branding of the cattle.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

Gregory dropped by the snubbing-post in the bow and tugged at the heavy chain and knotted it about the block.

El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914

They watched him with silent hostility as he dismounted, tied his horse to a snubbing-post worn shiny as a razor-strap, and sauntered into the

Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

Inch by inch the outlaw was worked to the snubbing-post.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

He held barely enough slack to make the snubbing-post, but finally took a turn round it and fought the horse up.

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

For the silent rising of naked, paint-daubed Indians from out of the ground, the quick closing in of the cordon, similar to the turn of a lariat around a snubbing-post when a pony weakens for a moment, is calculated to shake the nerves of the strongest of

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

Bud, with the help of Fresno and Show Low, takes a turn about the snubbing-post, easing up the rope to prevent the horse from breaking his neck when he falls.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

This corral has a circular fence slightly higher than a man's head with a snubbing-post in the center.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894