- a variation of riata.
reata
Example Sentences
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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
Stories of Californian life often mention Span. reata, a tethering rope, from the verb reatar, to bind together, Lat. re-aptare.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Doña Jacoba, without the quiver of a muscle, walked into her husband's room and returned with the reata and handed it to her.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
"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
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
