riata

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So Williams plans to stop calling a rope a rawhide riata and not use words like hackamore, tapaderas and cinch ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

A riata glistens in the sunlight, whistles through the air and falls over his head.

From Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by Shields, George O.

Relieved of your weight, and loosened by the tide, he got his foot over the riata, and Charley and I pulled him out.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

I was on my pins in a jiffy, snapped the noose over the deer's hind legs, tangled him up anyhow in the rest of the riata, and snubbed him to the nearest tree.

From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace

Then an ordinary riata is only fourteen or sixteen yards long—twenty yards is a very long one.

From The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring by Ellis, Edward Sylvester