reata

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A reata fastened to each horn and hind foot of the animal was about the saddle horn of a boy, and the raging bellowing creature was held thus at safe distance from all.

From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley

Let off the reata, walk close to this man.

From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson

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

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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Si Helena Belmont was my daughter, I take the green hide reata to her every morning; but Belmont so soffit, the school is better for her.

From The Californians by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn