reata

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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 Hough, Emerson

Interfere no farther between your sister and your parents, unless you prefer that reata to gold.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

And his mother, discovering his interest, made him a little reata and taught him how to throw it, how to make loops and knots.

From Valley of Wild Horses by Grey, Zane

They sent one of their number to get a reata for that purpose.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)

"You have the reata?" she queried, and turning led him past the corral and along the fence until they came to the stream.

From The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Brinkerhoff, R. M.