Halterbreak
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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.
More for "halterbreak"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.