reata
Example Sentences
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To these every day came Hardy with his rawhide reata.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
He looked down to his breast surprised, and there the coil of a reata held him in an iron grip, and he could not move.
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
It will be painful for Mrs. Darrell to see you as you are, and then you ought to have that reata off now, quickly.
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
And his mother, discovering his interest, made him a little reata and taught him how to throw it, how to make loops and knots.
From Valley of Wild Horses by Zane Grey
A horse-rope, or a lazo, is called in Spanish reata; and, by absorbing the article, la reata is made into lariat, just as such words as alligator, alcove, and pyramid were formed.
From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Edward Burnett Tylor
