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lasso
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Word definitions for lasso in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1807 (v.); 1808 (n.), American English, from Spanish lazo , from Latin laqueum (nominative laqueus ) "noose, snare" (see lace (n.)).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lasso ( or ), also referred to as a lariat , riata , or reata (all from Spanish la reata ), is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when pulled. It is a well-known tool of the American cowboy . The word is ...
Usage examples of lasso.
When he grabbed for it, she flung it across the room, lassoing the arm of an aluminite chair.
Ali suddenly cast aside his chibouque, drew the lasso from his pocket, threw it so skillfully as to catch the forelegs of the near horse in its triple fold, and suffered himself to be dragged on for a few steps by the violence of the shock, then the animal fell over on the pole, which snapped, and therefore prevented the other horse from pursuing its way.
Ali suddenly cast aside his chibouque, drew the lasso from his pocket, threw it so skilfully as to catch the forelegs of the near horse in its triple fold, and suffered himself to be dragged on for a few steps by the violence of the shock, then the animal fell over on the pole, which snapped, and therefore prevented the other horse from pursuing its way.
It was the cosmographer, Bartolomeo de Lasso, chief of the navigation in Spain, who had sent them to Plancius.
Then at the right moment Cuth darted from his hiding place, whooping at the top of his voice and whirling his lasso.
They were dressed in guanaco skins, and carried lances twenty feet long, knives, slings, bolas, and lassos, and, by their dexterity in the management of their horses, showed themselves to be accomplished riders.
Confidential Report had pix of Wetherall indulging his hobby in the smart lasso competition at the sixteenth annual Wyoming Tech Rodeo.
From Six Mile Point, Flathouse, Nine Mile Stone follow the footpeople with knotty sticks, hayforks, salmongaffs, lassos, flockmasters with stockwhips, bearbaiters with tomtoms, toreadors with bullswords, greynegroes waving torches.
In the middle of the plank was the stuffed head of a hammerhead shark with a rope lasso around its neck.
Alfors and Kors were looking down at him as they wound their lassos tighter and tighter around him, trussing him up.
Omaha and Ponka instead of the common lasso for catching wild horses in northwestern Nebraska.
In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.
Torun and Farakalian rode to either side of the Shield Anvil, lasso and rope coils in hand.
Zycron due to a difference in gravitational forces, the electric lassoes are efficient only at close quarters, and the inhabitants of Sakiel-Norn are now on the other side of a very thick wall.
Lake Penzance, when something jammed on our engine, and we had gone madly round the lake a number of times, with people on various docks trying to lasso us with ropes.