Meaning of hame string | Babel Free

Definitions

A leather strap or thong used to hold a horse's hame together.

Examples

“It was not an uncommon thing, when we were going through a corn row, for the point of the coulter to strike a root or stone, when the hame-string would break and the harness and Tom would come flying off over the horse's rump […].”

““I'll take a hame string to you,” I says. “That's what I'll give you. Going through my papers.””

“My father had told me that he always used leather hame strings so in case he got a team down and it became necessary to loosen the harness to get them up, a pocketknife on a leather hame string was the quickest way.”

“I found an extra stirrup in the gear room and by using a hame string, mounted it under the stirrup I would put my foot in while riding.”

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