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
"Don't move, but keep your grip on the riata!"
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
With a riata around his neck, and carefully guarded, we again advanced.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
Then the riata man must throw at a particular limb or projection.
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
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 Will Irwin
