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
The saddle-tree is hung with silver rings, fore and aft, to answer all the requirements of the vaquero in lacing up his riata.
From A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Kate Sanborn
On the livery saddle there did happen to be a poor sort of grass-rope riata, cheap and stiff and clumsily coiled, but fortunately with a loop in the end.
From Rim o' the World by Anton Otto Fischer
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 Bert Harte
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 Edward Sylvester Ellis
