halterbreak
verbEtymology From halter + break.
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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.1968, Harold James Cook, Tales of the 04 Ranch: Recollections of Harold J. Cook: