reata

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Marto, crestfallen and silently anticipating the worst, was led out next; a reata passed around the saddle horn and circling his waist was fastened back of the saddle.

From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley

Interfere no farther between your sister and your parents, unless you prefer that reata to gold.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

In one hand she carried a greenhide reata.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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

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 Grey, Zane