riata
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 5
- Letters
- 5
/ɹɪˈɑːtə/
Definition of riata
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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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