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Meanings of riata in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "lasso"
Examples for "lasso"
1
The lasso catch him around the neck; he is obliged to remain.
2
But the lasso slipped from the horns and the goat ran away.
3
He threw the lasso, drew it tight and the goat was captured.
4
One was found in a lasso, with which the natives catch them.
5
Then I can lasso the rooster and make an ostrich of him.
1
On the spur of the moment Tad decided to use the lariat.
2
The boy began spinning the noose of the lariat above his head.
3
I can go down the lariat the same as I did before.
4
Preparing the lariat, he threw the noose up and away from him.
5
The lariat may be of any length from twenty to eighty feet.
1
She caught the greenhide reata from the nail and went up the stair.
2
On either side rode a vaquero, with his reata fastened to the axle-tree.
3
He ran back to the bronco and untied the reata from the tientos.
4
The equipment of the cowboy is his horse and reata.
5
He was still whirling as if from absent-minded habit the loop of his reata.
Usage of riata in английском
1
Then the riata man must throw at a particular limb or projection.
2
Already Roy was taking the riata from its place below the saddle-horn.
3
He looked at my hand, which still unconsciously held the broken riata.
4
With a quick motion he snatched the riata from the cowboy's neck.
5
The lasso slips not much, but holds; the riata slips much and strangles.
6
The Spanish were armed with lances, pistols, and the deadly riata.
7
The black dodged skillfully, and the loop of Curly's riata missed the mark.
8
His hunting-knife had sheared at a stroke the riata round the engineer's neck.
9
Bent and stiff-thatmeans every muscle is like a rawhide riata.
10
E. S. I. Tied halfway down was a curiously worked riata.
11
No, for the noose of the riata was perhaps large,-whoknows?
12
There is not a vacquero in the whole rancho who has a horse-hair riata.
13
He passed the free end of the riata about them both, tying them close together.
14
A hair rope does not make a good riata.
15
A quick riata man can beat a fellow with a pistol at fairly close quarters.
16
Joe, loosinghis riata from the horse's neck, and coiling it carefully, considered a moment.
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