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LASSO (Span. lazo, snare, ultimately from Lat. laqueus, cf. " lace ")

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 238 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
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
  America than in the vast grazing
country
  west of the
Mississippi
  river, where the herders, called locally cow-boys or cow-punchers, are provided with it. When not in use, the lasso, called rope in the West, is coiled at the right of the saddle in front of the rider. When an
animal
  is to be caught the
herder
 , galloping after it, swings the coiled lasso
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
  horses.


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