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Rope to catch horses
Answer for the clue "Rope to catch horses ", 6 letters:
lariat
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Word definitions for lariat in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a lasso 2 a tether 3 (context wrestling English) An attack where the wrestler runs towards an opponent, wraps his arm around their upper chest and neck and then forces them to the ground.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lariat \Lar"i*at\ (l[a^]r"[i^]*[a^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lariated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lariating .] To secure with a lariat fastened to a stake, as a horse or mule for grazing; also, to lasso or catch with a lariat.
Usage examples of lariat.
His last act before mounting was to see that the coils of his lariat were in order.
He dug in the spurs, clinging to the lariat for a few feet, then suddenly releasing it, as the pony leaped away under the stinging pressure of the spurs.
He reached to his horse and grabbed the lariat from where it hung on the saddle.
As they trotted down the slope, Nash looked to his equipment, handled his revolver, felt the strands of the lariat, and resting only his toes in the stirrups, eased all his muscles to make sure that they were uncramped from the long journey.
He stooped and picked up his lariat, which lay coiled on the floor beside him.
And with that, still smiling at his own folly in a rather shamefaced way, he turned in the blankets and dropped the big coil of the lariat over a nail which projected from the boards just over the head of his bunk.
If that thrown noose of the lariat had settled over the head and shoulders of the sham sleeper it would have made no difference whether he waked or slept--in the end he would have sat before William Drew tied hand and foot.
Still never turning his back on the cowpuncher, who was now uncoiling his lariat and preparing it for a cast, Bard edged the piebald into the current.
On that rock the line of the lariat caught, hooking the swimmers sharply in toward the bank.
Close at hand he could not reach the rope, and therefore he fired not directly at the rope itself, but at the edge of the rock around which the lariat bent at a sharp angle.
Glancing back, he saw Nash in the act of throwing his lariat to the ground, wild with anger, and before he could understand the meaning of this burst of temper over a mere spoiled lariat, the gun whipped from the side of the cowboy, exploded, and the little piebald, with ears pricked sharply forward as though in vague curiosity, crumpled to the ground.
But examining the cut end he found it severed as cleanly as if a knife had slashed across it, and then it was he knew and threw the lariat to the ground.
Once he replaced the lariat, she kneed the animal into motion, forcing Wade to run beside her.
Project Lariat that we really saw all that much of each other again, and by then she was a widow and I was happily married.
So, he passes me back to DeepSpace, which shunts me to Lariat, and Colonel Eatinger gets on-line, who hands me off to Styx while he goes dweeb-hunting.