riata

Example Sentences

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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

There is not much to describe about this part of throwing a riata, important though it may be.

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

One draws his revolver—if his circumstances permit him the possession of so expensive a weapon, and they are generally carried—whilst the other lays hand to his riata.

From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin

He felt himself beyond all human aid, And trusted to the saints—and, for that matter, To some weak spot in Felipe's riata.

From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various

It was the riata with which he had picketed the pony.

From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Fischer, Anton Otto