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Riata

//ɹɪˈɑːtə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A lariat or lasso. US, regional

    "“You double-crossing devil,” the young man growled. “[…] Hereafter you'll trot ahead of me at the end of a riata, while I keep you on the jump with a four-horse whip. Right now you're scattering my dunnage from hell to breakfast, […]”"

  2. 2
    a long noosed rope used to catch animals wordnet

Etymology

From Spanish reata, from reatar (“to retie”). Compare lariat.

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