lasso
[las-oh, la-soo]
- a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
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- to catch with or as with a lasso.
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Origin of lasso
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Contemporary Examples
Ballerinas get lassoed into the colorful fog (see 0:35), and businessmen get lost in a flurry of flying documents (see 2:50).
From the snow-bunny double agent to the lassoed plane, watch all nine.
Historical Examples
They lassoed him promptly and built a fire to heat the branding-irons.
Roosevelt in the Bad LandsH. Hagedorn.
Bruin had been captured by four cowboys, who had lassoed and tied it.
A Tramp's NotebookMorley Roberts
It was on this expedition that Kit Carson lassoed a huge grizzly bear.
Scouting with Kit CarsonEverett T. Tomlinson
And even then, all do not escape, for some of them are sure to be lassoed in the melee.
The Scout and RangerJames Pike
The bull was then lassoed and killed in the manner above described.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, CompleteUlysses S. Grant
lasso
- a long rope or thong with a running noose at one end, used (esp in America) for roping horses, cattle, etc; lariat
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- (tr) to catch with or as if with a lasso
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Word Origin
C19: from Spanish lazo, ultimately from Latin laqueus noose
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Word Origin and History for lassoed
lasso
1807 (v.); 1808 (n.), American English, from Spanish lazo, from Latin laqueum (nominative laqueus) "noose, snare" (see lace (n.)).
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