A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
Sinônimos
Examples for "lasso"
Examples for "lasso"
1The lasso catch him around the neck; he is obliged to remain.
2But the lasso slipped from the horns and the goat ran away.
3He threw the lasso, drew it tight and the goat was captured.
4One was found in a lasso, with which the natives catch them.
5Then I can lasso the rooster and make an ostrich of him.
1On the spur of the moment Tad decided to use the lariat.
2The boy began spinning the noose of the lariat above his head.
3I can go down the lariat the same as I did before.
4Preparing the lariat, he threw the noose up and away from him.
5The lariat may be of any length from twenty to eighty feet.
1She caught the greenhide reata from the nail and went up the stair.
2On either side rode a vaquero, with his reata fastened to the axle-tree.
3He ran back to the bronco and untied the reata from the tientos.
4The equipment of the cowboy is his horse and reata.
5He was still whirling as if from absent-minded habit the loop of his reata.
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.