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

Saddle Bags and Saddle Blankets On the right-hand side of your pommel will be a strap and buckle for your riata.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

With a riata around his neck, and carefully guarded, we again advanced.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

Parenthetically: do not become over-enthusiastic and boil your riata, or you will make it aggravatingly kinky.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

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