latigo
noun
a leather strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch.
latigos
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pluralof latigo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“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
Buy a number of extra latigos, or cinch-straps.
From The Mountains by Stewart Edward White
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
