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 riata at times serves the Mexican as a lethal weapon.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin
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
And 274 after Pete got scrambled by a riata, and a few more things of that kind happened, I stopped worrying any more than was necessary.
From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will
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
