Mecate

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A rope of hair or maguey fibre, for tying horses, etc. Southwestern, US

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mecate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl mecatl.

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