lariat
Americannoun
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a long, noosed rope used to catch horses, cattle, or other livestock; lasso.
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a rope used to picket grazing animals.
noun
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another word for lasso
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a rope for tethering animals
Etymology
Origin of lariat
1825–35; < Spanish la reata the riata
Example Sentences
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Recently, researchers at Brown University who were studying the locations of the joining sites in these lariats made an odd observation -- some introns were actually circular instead of lariat shaped.
From Science Daily • May 10, 2024
A Reuters video showed a Border Patrol agent using what the news agency described as a lariat to whip at a Haitian migrant trying to enter the United States from Mexico.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021
A U.S. law enforcement officer on horseback wielded what appeared to be a lariat, whipping it close to the face of a man wading in the Rio Grande carrying a plastic bag of food.
From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2021
M. was dressed unremarkably, in jeans and a T-shirt, with a necklace on a long leather lariat — an upgraded version of what he might have worn in class.
From New York Times • May 10, 2021
He tied the lariat rope around her neck and slipped off the bridle to let her graze.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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