West a rope or rawhide halter with a headstall, used in breaking horses
Origin of hackamore
altered from Spanish jáquima, halter from Arabic shak?mahackamore
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hackamore
noun
A halter designed for directing a horse by pressure on the nose rather than by a bit, used especially in breaking horses to a bridle.
Origin of hackamore
Alteration of Spanish jáquima halter from Old Spanish xaquima from Arabic šakīma bit of a bridle from šakama to bridle śkmTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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