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

Swift, practiced, relentless, Mose dragged at the latigo till the wide hair web embedded itself in the pony's hide.

From The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

With his free hand, Bud must now slip the latigo strap through the cinch-ring.

From The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama by Edmund Day

"Where you going?" asked Wally abruptly, when Grant was looping up the end of his latigo.

From Good Indian by B. M. Bower

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

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

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