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

Relieved of your weight, and loosened by the tide, he got his foot over the riata, and Charley and I pulled him out.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

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

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

The riata at times serves the Mexican as a lethal weapon.

From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin