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

Then an ordinary riata is only fourteen or sixteen yards long—twenty yards is a very long one.

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

By shoving the riata under the colt's belly with a forked stick, and fishing the loose end up on the other side, he managed to get a loop round the animal's hind quarters.

From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Fischer, Anton Otto

As she spoke, she began uncoiling the rawhide riata which was tied to her saddle.

From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

It was the riata with which he had picketed the pony.

From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Fischer, Anton Otto