Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A lariat; a lasso.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See reata.

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  • noun a lariat or lasso

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a long noosed rope used to catch animals

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish reata, lasso, lariat; see lariat.]

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From Spanish reata.

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Examples

  • We also tried some charred lamb skewers with great, spicy, cucumber riata.

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  • We also tried some charred lamb skewers with great, spicy, cucumber riata.

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  • With a riata over his shoulder to rope some great horses from the herd, he looked forward to the adventure.

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  • We will fashion a halter and tie a post to the end of a riata for her to drag.

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  • Deuces tied the riata off and in the gathering darkness dropped to his hands and knees to measure the width between his scalp and the soil.

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  • He tore the riata from his saddle and began to beat her to the ground with it.

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  • It was not long, however, before I was interrupted by shouts and screams from that vicinity and on returning thither I found that Chu Chu, with the assistance of her _riata_, had securely wound up two of my neighbors to the tree, where they presented the appearance of early

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  • And to tell the truth, as Enriquez and I fell back, although I had insisted upon still keeping hold of the end of the _riata_, it was a picture to admire.

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  • "I would not that you should hold the _riata_," said Consuelo petulantly.

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  • She looked at the _riata_ and sniffed it disparagingly; she pawed some pebbles that were near me tentatively with her small hoof; she started back with a Robinson-Crusoe-like horror of my footprints in the wet gully, but my actual personal presence she ignored.

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