latigo

American  

[lat-i-goh] / ˈlæt ɪˌgoʊ /

noun

latigos, plural latigoes plural

1. a leather strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• latigoes
  plural
• latigos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of latigo

1870–75, < Spanish látigo whip, cinch strap, perhaps < Gothic *laittug; compare Old English lāttēh leading rein, equivalent to lād- lead ¹ + tēh, tēah tie

Example Sentences

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Made Solid’s colorful assortment of antique African trade beads, sewn onto a cognac latigo leather strap, is just the thing for the person with everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

He was lacing the latigo through the cinch rings when there was a small stir behind him.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

It is a heavy oiled latigo strap, punched with buckle holes, passing through a cinch ring supplied with a large buckle tongue.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

He turned back to the latigo he was drawing tight.

From The Desert Valley by Gregory, Jackson

With the reins in his teeth, he worked loose the latigo and cinch, taking care not to trip the speeding horse.

From Kid Wolf of Texas by Powers, Paul S. (Paul Sylvester)

Though the taut ropes sing like a banjo string And the latigoes creak and strain, Yet I got no fear of an outlaw steer And I'll tumble him on the plain.

From Sun and Saddle Leather Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems by Clark, Badger

Though the taut rope sing like a banjo string And the latigoes creak and strain, Yet I've got no fear of an outlaw steer And I'll tumble him on the plain.

From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by Lomax, John Avery

The hold on the stirrups and latigos helped a lot.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Buy a number of extra latigos, or cinch-straps.

From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward

“I think, myself, that what makes life so easy and congenial in these latigos and longitudes is the dearth of law and the ladies.”

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

Then, after looking carefully to stirrup leathers, cinch and latigos, he went on to the corrals, the heavy saddle under his arm.

From When A Man's A Man by Wright, Harold Bell

And because he had to count upon possibilities far ahead he drew Ramon's saddle to him and cut the stirrup-leathers, cinchas, and latigos.

From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Knibbs, Henry Herbert