lasso
noun
a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Charging wildly across the rugged desert on horseback, hard-riding wranglers are lassoing the last of the Death Valley wild burros and dragging them into captivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022