riata

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
5
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈɑːtə/

Definition of riata

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, regional)A lariat or lasso.
    ““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, […]””
    “A few blocks from the capitol we stripped him, cut off everything hanging between his legs, then fixed him with a riata and dragged him up and down Congress.”

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Etymology

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

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