单词 | lariat |
释义 | ▪ I. lariat, n.|ˈlærɪət| Also lariette, larriet. [a. Sp. la reata (see riata).] A rope used for picketing horses or mules; a cord or rope with a noose used in catching wild cattle; the lasso of Mexico and South America.
1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 26 Lariats, or noosed cords, used in catching the wild horse. 1859Marcy Prairie Trav. i. 41 Lariats made of hemp are the best. 1861G. F. Berkeley Sportsm. W. Prairies xv. 250 Two mules put so near together that they had got their larriets entangled. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly (1877) 3 The horsehair lariette, which serves the Western Nimrod for lassoing by day and for keeping off snakes at night. Hence ˈlariat v. trans., to secure with a lariat.
1850B. Taylor Eldorado xi. (1862) 104 My mules had already been caught and lariated. ▪ II. lariat obs. form of loriot, golden oriole. |

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