reata

The Indians were expert not only with the bow but with the reata as well, and many Spaniards were lassoed and slain.

Then he raised his eyes, measured the distance and turning the reata forcibly round his head, hurled it into Doa Anita's balcony.

He drew a few steps nearer, undid the reata fastened round his loins, and held it in his right hand.

The Mexican and the man who had come so luckily to his help had securely tied the Indian with a reata.

A reata, rolled up and fastened to the saddle-bow, allowed them to be recognised as partisans from the Mexican frontiers.