- a variation of riata.
reata
Example Sentences
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To these every day came Hardy with his rawhide reata.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
She could not prevent his exit, for she went back with the stone, but she had sprung to the open before he reached it himself, and was striking at him furiously with her reata.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
He was coiling the thin, braided hide reata, soft as a glove and strong as steel, which always hung at the Spanish saddle.
From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
He carried no reata and did not look like a ranchman.
From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Robert Wesley Amick
"You have the reata?" she queried, and turning led him past the corral and along the fence until they came to the stream.
From The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by R. M. Brinkerhoff
