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

I felt thankful that they had not devoured my rawhide riata.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various

A riata glistens in the sunlight, whistles through the air and falls over his head.

From Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by Shields, George O.

On the livery saddle there did happen to be a poor sort of grass-rope riata, cheap and stiff and clumsily coiled, but fortunately with a loop in the end.

From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto