reata
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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
"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
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
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
Let off the reata, walk close to this man.
From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
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