Riata is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RIATA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Spanish) a lariat, also REATA
• A long light rope, usually of rawhide or hemp, used chiefly for catching livestock or tethering animals.
• a long noosed rope used to catch animals
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a lasso
• same as reata

Words related to RIATA

reata5 riatas6

Words that contain RIATA

riatas6 striata7 striatal8

How to use RIATA in a sentence

• Each one of these horses had a riata on the pommel of the saddle.
• At the pommel hung coiled a well-worn rawhide riata.
• The strain on the riata was thus momentarily slackened, permitting the big cat to scramble to all fours and turn to investigate this trap into which he had fallen.
• Pablo dragged it into the yard last spring at the end of his riata, and it lies buried in the San Gregorio.
• The skill shown by cattlemen in throwing the riata or lasso often approaches the marvelous.
• When the riata is made it should be buried for a week, ten days, or even a fortnight, in the sand.
• There is not much to describe about this part of throwing a riata, important though it may be.
• Then the riata man must throw at a particular limb or projection.
• If you are wielding a riata you know that each of your coils is almost two feet or two and one half feet long.
• He leaped from his pony, the coiled riata in his hand as he touched the ground.
• He mounted his own horse and took a turn of the riata round the saddle-horn.
• It was the riata with which he had picketed the pony.
• Still, Jose is a very devil when the riata is hissing over his head, and he rides recklessly.
• The other end he tied to the second hair rope, drew the riata taut and tied the rope securely to the second tree.
• Each grasping an end of the stick and throwing all their weight against it, they pushed it before them along the stretched riata.
• Jack dropped the riata and turned, his whole face smiling a welcome.
• The riata caught the lifted forefeet of the bull just as he stiffened his neck for the lunge.
• At each riata length, all down the line, a vaquero sat quiet upon his horse, a living fence-post holding the riata fence tight and straight.
• Jack, loosening his riata as he dismounted, caught the loop over the high horn and let the rope drop to the ground.
• CHAPTER XXIV FOR LOVE AND A MEDAL Down the roped lane thundered Jose, whirling his riata over his head till the loop had taken full twenty of the sixty feet of rawhide.
• A snaky, six-strand riata can be a rather terrible weapon, he decided, while he loosed it and flung it from him.
• It is said that their property consists of extensive pasture lands on which they raise cattle, and that they always go well armed with pistol, rifle and riata.
• The Spanish were armed with lances, pistols, and the deadly riata.

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