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  • noun Plural form of hackamore.

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Examples

  • Ezra had a cot for Emaline in a room where he kept a gathering of old saddles, blankets, bridles, lariats, spurs, halters and harnesses, hackamores and martingales, short-handled quirts, a pair of the long black bullwhips they had used when he and Eli were freighting with ox teams in South Dakota with their father, Eb Paint.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Ezra had a cot for Emaline in a room where he kept a gathering of old saddles, blankets, bridles, lariats, spurs, halters and harnesses, hackamores and martingales, short-handled quirts, a pair of the long black bullwhips they had used when he and Eli were freighting with ox teams in South Dakota with their father, Eb Paint.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Ezra had a cot for Emaline in a room where he kept a gathering of old saddles, blankets, bridles, lariats, spurs, halters and harnesses, hackamores and martingales, short-handled quirts, a pair of the long black bullwhips they had used when he and Eli were freighting with ox teams in South Dakota with their father, Eb Paint.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • La Surtidora - located smack dab in the center of Portal Hidalgo, sells everything a person could ever want, from staples like chiles and beans to the ubiquitous Ramen soup, at least ten different kinds of rope, mouse traps and powdered Niagara starch, photocopies and hackamores, to soft candy and hard liquor.

    The Serene Magic Of Patzcuaro 2007

  • La Surtidora - located smack dab in the center of Portal Hidalgo, sells everything a person could ever want, from staples like chiles and beans to the ubiquitous Ramen soup, at least ten different kinds of rope, mouse traps and powdered Niagara starch, photocopies and hackamores, to soft candy and hard liquor.

    The Serene Magic Of Patzcuaro 2007

  • None wore bridles, or even hackamores, and none bore a saddle.

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • None wore bridles, or even hackamores, and none bore a saddle.

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • And there were hair macartas and hackamores, and two pairs of her father's old spurs, and her father's stock saddle and chaps and slicker and hat; and a jelly glass half full of rattlesnake rattles, and her mother's old checked sunbonnet, -- the kind with pasteboard ` ` slats. ''

    Jean of the Lazy A 1915

  • They roped a couple of the wandering horses, improvised hackamores from the rope cut in two, and went to meet Judith.

    Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912

  • Dismounting, they made impromptu hackamores of their ropes and mounted bareback, leaving their own saddles empty for Kendric and Barlow.

    Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Jackson Gregory 1912

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