![]() ![]() Some types include half-breed, spade, snaffle, curb, and ring bits.īOB: Method of marking cattle by trimming their tail hair. There are a great many variations on bit shapes and severity. A long trot is the gait of choice for buckaroos that need to travel long distances horseback to reach the place where they will start to work.īIT ( el freno): A metal mouthpiece on a bridle, when connected to reins, used to steer the horse. Wide stirrups make it easier to “trot out” for a number of miles in the big country. If you look at them from the side, they are shaped similar to a bell. The pattern is used for identification, for instance to show where a horse or mule should be in a pack string.īELL MARE: Generally older mares wearing a bell, used as leaders in pack trains or put in a remuda to locate where horses are grazing at night.īELL STIRRUPS: Wide stirrups common to the buckaroo country. Also called sugans, soogans, hot rolls, or dream sacks.īELL: To trim an animal’s tail into a distinctive bell-shaped pattern. In older days, uncombed tails were a sign of an unbroken horse.īARBED WIRE: Wire used in fencing that has points at intervals to deter livestock from crossing the fence. Sometimes called “bobbed wire” or “barb wire” or “The Devil’s Rope.”īEDROLL: Blankets rolled and carried for sleeping. ![]() BīANGTAIL: A mustang mare (not necessarily limited to mares). The cowboy asks for his horse for the day according to the work to be done. They are trained to stand with their heads facing the rope and are roped by the jigger or cowboss for the cowboys from behind using a hoolihan loop. In traditional Old California horse training, when a horse had graduated to become a finished bridle horse, the Alamar knot was tied from two coils of a mane hair mecate draped over the horse’s neck and the knot worn on the horse’s chest to denote him as a bridle horse.ĪNVIL: Hard surface used to shape horseshoes or pound rivets.ĪT THE ROPES: Horses are gathered at a ranch into a rope corral. AĪLAMAR KNOT: A decorative knot used to tie a mecate around a horse’s neck. Since so much of the cowboy’s lifestyle and equipment comes from the Mexican Vaqueros and Spanish traditions, when applicable, the Spanish language name from which each term derives in in italics. ![]() ![]() This is a growing, definitive glossary of cowboy terms. ![]()
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