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 prefer the Mexican grass rope with a brass honda to the rawhide riata, because I am used to it.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

There is not much to describe about this part of throwing a riata, important though it may be.

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

A riata hung to the pommel of a saddle, and he paused to shake it loose, uncoiling the thin rope, but with watchful eyes constantly on his prisoner.

From Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier by Blumenschein, Ernest L.

Already Roy was taking the riata from its place below the saddle-horn.

From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod