riata
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of riata
1840–50, < Spanish reata, derivative of reatar to tie again, equivalent to re- re- + atar < Latin aptāre to fit
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So Williams plans to stop calling a rope a rawhide riata and not use words like hackamore, tapaderas and cinch ring.
From Time Magazine Archive
I felt thankful that they had not devoured my rawhide riata.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
The saddle-tree is hung with silver rings, fore and aft, to answer all the requirements of the vaquero in lacing up his riata.
From A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Kate Sanborn
Then the riata man must throw at a particular limb or projection.
From The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring by Edward Sylvester Ellis
By shoving the riata under the colt's belly with a forked stick, and fishing the loose end up on the other side, he managed to get a loop round the animal's hind quarters.
From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Anton Otto Fischer
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