reata
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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 Tylor, Edward Burnett
He ran back to the bronco and untied the reata from the tientos.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
One of the riders of the Flying V Y had tried to drag the prisoner out with a reata.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
On either side rode a vaquero, with his reata fastened to the axle-tree.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
She caught the greenhide reata from the nail and went up the stair.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
