halter-strap

Elizabeth let the horse's head loose and jumped back, still holding to the halter-strap.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

To this he readily assented, and, with his knife, cut one saddle loose, set the other on his back, and handed me the halter-strap as I mounted.

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore

The halter-strap parted, and the stout oak whiffle-tree was splintered into many pieces.

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

Von Rittenheim was fumbling with the halter-strap of his mule, when

A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903

The marauders had gone up the narrow stairway into the kitchen, first lashing one end of a leather halter-strap about the knob of

A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Charles King 1888

At that I reached out for the halter-strap, to take possession of the colt.

Twenty Years of Hus'ling 1885

He stopped and examined the halter-strap, still fastened to the fence.

In the Carquinez Woods Bret Harte 1869

If he is inclined to hold his head from you, put the end of the halter-strap around his neck, drop your whip, and draw very gently; he will let his neck give, and you can pull his head to you.

A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid 1846

"Hit was a-layin 'with what was left of a bigger wooden box or trunk, which same had gone to pieces, and there was a part of that old wagon with that same piece of a halter-strap you remember fastened to a wheel.

The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908

"Chiquita did not break away, sir; her halter-strap was too strong, and I tied it with a cavalry hitch.

Captured by the Navajos 1871