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

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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

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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

Fasten your latigo or cinch straps to the lower ring.

From Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White

"I wasn't referring to your manner, m' son," he chuckled, after he had watched Good Indian jerk the latigo loose and pull off the saddle, showing the wet imprint of it on Keno's hide.

From Good Indian by B. M. Bower

She commanded Ward to draw the latigo tighter, and Ward did so, dodging back as the big brute snapped at him.

From Judith of Blue Lake Ranch by Jackson Gregory

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 John Avery Lomax

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 Badger Clark

He had her horse saddled, and was giving a final pull at the latigos when she came out in her riding clothes.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

“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 Eugene Manlove Rhodes

The hold on the stirrups and latigos helped a lot.

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

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 Harold Bell Wright

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 Henry Herbert Knibbs

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