This task is called floreo de reata or ‘making flowers.’. From Wordnik.com. [Charreada in Guadalajara] Reference
In South America a ring fixed to the surcingle is used; while in Guatemala and Costa Rica the reata is tied to the end of the horse's tail!. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The reata in those days was nearly always made of plaited raw hide, and often made by the boys themselves, though a good reata required a long time to complete and peculiar skill in the making of it. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The equipment of the cowboy is his horse and reata. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Sketches] Reference
He ran back to the bronco and untied the reata from the tientos. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Four-Square] Reference
Lariat is compounded from the Spanish la ` the '+ reata ` lasso.'. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference
'Dolphus was holding Chu Chu by the reata a few paces from the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Starbottle's Client] Reference
A reata was coiled at his saddle, and two big Colts swung from a beaded. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Wolf of Texas] Reference
He was still whirling as if from absent-minded habit the loop of his reata. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Four-Square] Reference
One of Sneed's men had evidently managed to get his horse loose from the reata. From Wordnik.com. [Partners of Chance] Reference
One of the riders of the Flying V Y had tried to drag the prisoner out with a reata. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Four-Square] Reference
"You have the reata?" she queried, and turning led him past the corral and along the fence until they came to the stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Ridin' Kid from Powder River] Reference
Helena Belmont was my daughter, I take the green hide reata to her every morning; but Belmont so soffit, the school is better for her. From Wordnik.com. [The Californians] Reference
Without the least embarrassment or even self-consciousness of her appearance, she tossed the end of the reata to me with the curtest explanation as she passed by. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Starbottle's Client] Reference
Even though lariat contains its own Spanish article, when we imported it into English, we added another, the English the, to create a literal the la reata, ` the the lasso, 'and we never think of it as redundancy. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference
She had often ridden him before, and when she had detached the fifty-foot reata from his head-stall, he permitted her the further recognized familiarity of twining her fingers in his bluish mane and climbing on his back. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Starbottle's Client] Reference
While the horse is in hot pursuit the rider dexterously whirls his reata above his head until, at a favorable moment, it leaves his hand, uncoiling as it flies through the air, and, if the throw is successful, the noose falls over the animal's head. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Sketches] Reference
It is the weight of an ox and the vigor of half a dozen that he has tugging at the other end of his rope, and if a score of men did not stand ready to help, and if it were not possible to take a turn of the reata around a solid rock, the seal would surely get away. From Wordnik.com. [Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands] Reference
Since cattle ranching is common to both sides of the border, it should come as no surprise that there has been an exchange of ranch-related words: lariat from la reata; bronco; lasso from lazo; rodeo; chaps from chaparreras; charro; hackamore from jáquima; mustang from mestengo; and quirt from cuerda or cuarta. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference
An adroit Spaniard, to whom the lasso or reata is like a fifth hand, or like the trunk to the elephant, steals up to a sleeping congregation, fastens his eye on the biggest one of the lot, and, biding his time, at the first motion of the animal, with unerring skill flings his loose rawhide noose, and then holds on for dear life. From Wordnik.com. [Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands] Reference
4B, u de Pfttf Cat» 540. — fed reata» d. fpiculum huraero dextro». From Wordnik.com. [Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ...] Reference
A coiled reata in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [0 638. El Vaquero by Lucius Harwood Foote. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
Chaps from chaparejos, lariat from la reata, sombrero, mesquite, latigo, tapadero, bandanna, buckaroo from vaquero, corral, rodeo, remuda, ranch from rancho. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
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