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
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
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
Striving to raise his hand to tear the hateful bandage away, he found that he was pinioned by the elbows and bound hand and foot by the very riata, probably, that had dragged him thither.
From Foes in Ambush by Charles King
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 George O. Shields
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