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LASSO (Span. lazo, snare, ultimately from Lat. laqueus, cf. " lace ") , a rope 6o to 10o ft. in length with a slip-noose at one end, used in the Spanish and Portuguese parts of America and in the western United States for catching wild horses and cattle . It is now less employed in South
country west of the Mississippi
animal is to be caught the herder
round his head and casts it straight forward in such a manner that the noose settles over the head or round the legs of the quarry, when it is speedily brought into submission. A shorter rope called lariat (Span. la reata) is used to picket
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