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halter the simplest form of restraint for the head of farm animals. Comprises a poll strap, a nose band and a halter shank that brings the ends of the nose band together under the mandible. Made of leather or cotton or manila rope. halter broken said of a young animal that has been taught to allow itself to be caught, haltered and led but not broken in to saddle or cart. halter classes show classes in which entrant horses are required only to be halter broken. |
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When Meanie Jeannie reached her boiling point, she ran up behind me and wached her windbreaker--hard--on my bare haltered back the zipper thumping my head so sharply that I almost feel down and cired. The former trainer of Seattle Slew haltered Don't Blame Rio in December of 1995. In "The Metamorphosis of Black Boy" Thaddeus, tracing the publication history of Black Boy, points out that the autobiography, as published, contains "hesitancy in the final pages, the conditional verbs, the haltered rhetoric, the mention of luck" rather than "a note of triumph" and "moment of truth" (281-82). |
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