Halterbreak

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To get an animal used to wearing and being handled in a halter.

    "At odd times we would halterbreak the entire bunch of colts, perhaps 75 or 100 of them. When I grew strong enough to handle them, I did practically nothing but halterbreak colts, breaking two a day, on the average."

Example

More examples

"At odd times we would halterbreak the entire bunch of colts, perhaps 75 or 100 of them. When I grew strong enough to handle them, I did practically nothing but halterbreak colts, breaking two a day, on the average."

Etymology

From halter + break.

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