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

I was on my pins in a jiffy, snapped the noose over the deer's hind legs, tangled him up anyhow in the rest of the riata, and snubbed him to the nearest tree.

From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace

The skill shown by cattlemen in throwing the riata or lasso often approaches the marvelous.

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

Dick jingled his spurs and swung his riata, Jovita bounded forward, and in another moment they swept into Tuttleville, and drew up before the wooden piazza of "The Hotel of All Nations."

From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Schauffler, Robert Haven

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