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

And 274 after Pete got scrambled by a riata, and a few more things of that kind happened, I stopped worrying any more than was necessary.

From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will

He leaped from his pony, the coiled riata in his hand as he touched the ground.

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

The saddle-tree is hung with silver rings, fore and aft, to answer all the requirements of the vaquero in lacing up his riata.

From A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Sanborn, Kate

And Collie disentangled his legs from an amazing contortion of the riata and tried76 to whirl the loop as he had seen the cowmen whirl it.

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