- a variation of riata.
reata
Example Sentences
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He ran back to the bronco and untied the reata from the tientos.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
With a sudden flexile turn of a wrist that had thrown many a reata, he flung it straight through the open window.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
He was coiling the thin, braided hide reata, soft as a glove and strong as steel, which always hung at the Spanish saddle.
From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
She could not prevent his exit, for she went back with the stone, but she had sprung to the open before he reached it himself, and was striking at him furiously with her reata.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
It will be painful for Mrs. Darrell to see you as you are, and then you ought to have that reata off now, quickly.
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
