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LASSO (Span. lazo, snare, ultimately from See also:
LAT
Lat. laqueus, cf. " See also:
LACE (corresponding to Ital. merletto, trina; Genoese Pizzo; Ger. spitzen; Fr. dentelle; Dutch kanten; Span. encaje; the English word owes something to the Fr. lassis or laces, but both are connected with the earlier Lat. laqueus; early French laces were
lace ") , a rope 6o to 10o ft. in length with a slip-noose at one end, used in the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish and Portuguese parts of See also:

AMERICA

America and in the western See also:

UNITED

United States for catching See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild horses and See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. It is now less employed in See also:

South America than in the vast grazing See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

west of the See also:

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi See also:

RIVER

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 See also:

SADDLE (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Sattel, Dut. zadel, also in Russ. siedlo and Lat. sella, for sedla; it is not derived directly from Lat. sedile, which means a chair, but all the words are to be referred to the root sad-, which gives

saddle in front of the rider. When an See also:

animal is to be caught the See also:

HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON (1744-1803)

herder, galloping after it, swings the coiled lasso See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round his See also:

head and casts it straight forward in such a manner that the noose settles over the head or round the legs of the See also:

QUARRY

quarry, when it is speedily brought into submission. A shorter rope called lariat (Span. la reata) is used to See also:

PICKET, PIQUET

picket horses.

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