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2. Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

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   The Official Table of Drops, formerly issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings. Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John Babbacombe Lee , a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on ...

3. Glossary of equestrian terms - Wikipedia

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   2. Lead (tack): a lead rope, lead shank or leading rein. A flat line or rope attached to a halter and used to lead the animal when the handler is on the ground. [8]: 295 lead change, change of leg The act of a horse changing from one lead to the other. When performed at a canter or gallop, it is a "flying change".

4. Fiador knot - Wikipedia

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   On a rope halter, the fiador knot is made from one continuous piece of rope, and is, along with a series of double overhand knots, one of two types of knots that comprise most rope halters. For one style of rope hobbles, a brass ring may be attached to the double loops on one side of the knot to join the hobble for the horse's other front foot ...

5. Yearling (horse) - Wikipedia

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   A yearling is a young horse either male or female that is between one and two years old. [1] Yearlings are comparable in development to a very early adolescent and are not fully mature physically. While they may be in the earliest stages of sexual maturity, they are considered too young to be breeding stock.

6. Horse tack - Wikipedia

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   Most of the time, horses are not ridden with a halter, as it offers insufficient precision and control. Halters have no bit. [2]: 384–385 In Australian and British English, a halter is a rope with a spliced running loop around the nose and another over the poll, used mainly for unbroken horses or for cattle. The lead rope cannot be removed ...

7. List of knots - Wikipedia

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   Halter hitch – connects a rope to an object; Halyard bend – a way to attach the end of a rope at right angle to a cylindrical object; Hammock hitch Handcuff knot – tied in the bight, having two adjustable loops in opposing directions; Hangman's noose (hangman's knot) – well-known knot most often associated with its use in hanging a person

8. Hackamore - Wikipedia

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   A closely fitted rope halter with knots on the nose, a bosal-like button at the jaw and two reins attached may act in a manner similar to a sidepull or mild bosal. In contrast, use of an ordinary stable halter as headgear to control a horse is, as a rule, a dangerous practice because the stable halter has no way of increasing leverage to exert ...

9. Lead (tack) - Wikipedia

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   Lead clipped to a horse's halter A lead shank applied under the chin. A lead, lead line, lead rope (US) or head collar rope (UK), [1] is used to lead an animal such as a horse. Usually, it is attached to a halter. The lead may be integral to the halter or, more often, separate.