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riata

[ree-ah-tuh, -at-uh] / riˈɑ tə, -ˈæt ə /
NOUN
lariat
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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

"Don't move, but keep your grip on the riata!"

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

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)

Dick jingled his spurs and swung his riata, Jovita bounded forward, and in another moment they swept into Tuttleville, and drew up before the wooden piazza of "The Hotel of All Nations."

From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Schauffler, Robert Haven

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