Synonyms:
halter, hackamore
Meaning: rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
Usage examples
Hold your tongue, or I'll break my halter and be at you--with your handsome fat!"
I can't see you put the halter around your neck to hang yourself without doing everything I can to stop it.
But strike the water with the halter and say, "Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!" and she will come.'
He tried hard to keep awake, but it was of no use, and in the morning there he was again on the log, grasping the halter.
So he took leave of her, and put the halter round his horse's neck and led him into the forest, where he rubbed him down till his skin was shining like gold.
So, one morning after an early breakfast, the horses were led up from the stables, each one having on a strong halter, and a coiled picket rope with an iron pin fastened to the saddle.
I finally stopped, put him on the off side, gave him the long end of the yoke, and tied his head back with the halter strap to the chain; but to no purpose, for he pulled by the head very heavily.
Half-way over the floe my rear pony got his foreleg foul of his halter, then got frightened, tugged at his halter, and lifted the unladen sledge to which he was tied--then the halter broke and away he went.
He managed to keep his seat for a long time, in spite of all her efforts to throw him, but at length he grew so weary that he fell fast asleep, and when he woke he found himself sitting on a log, with the halter in his hands.
So when it began to grow dark the prince mounted the mare for the second time and rode into the meadows, and the foal trotted behind its mother. Again he managed to stick on till midnight: then a sleep overtook him that he could not battle against, and when he woke up he found himself, as before, sitting on the log, with the halter in his hands.