What is "lariats"

Usage examples of "lariats".

They carried lariats, catchpoles, nets and bolos, snarley-balls and tangle-flails.

Hokas were deftly whirling their lariats forth to catch their personal mounts.

Horseblooded were abruptly weaving agile horses through the melee, seizing enemy knights with catch-poles and lariats and dragging them from their mounts.

There were whole coils of new rope of various sizes, from lariats to corral cables, and a sufficient amount of the largest size to make a stack of hobbles as large as a haycock.