A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
1Then the riata man must throw at a particular limb or projection.
2Already Roy was taking the riata from its place below the saddle-horn.
3He looked at my hand, which still unconsciously held the broken riata.
4With a quick motion he snatched the riata from the cowboy's neck.
5The lasso slips not much, but holds; the riata slips much and strangles.
6The Spanish were armed with lances, pistols, and the deadly riata.
7The black dodged skillfully, and the loop of Curly's riata missed the mark.
8His hunting-knife had sheared at a stroke the riata round the engineer's neck.
9Bent and stiff-thatmeans every muscle is like a rawhide riata.
10E. S. I. Tied halfway down was a curiously worked riata.
11No, for the noose of the riata was perhaps large,-whoknows?
12There is not a vacquero in the whole rancho who has a horse-hair riata.
13He passed the free end of the riata about them both, tying them close together.
14A hair rope does not make a good riata.
15A quick riata man can beat a fellow with a pistol at fairly close quarters.
16Joe, loosinghis riata from the horse's neck, and coiling it carefully, considered a moment.