reata
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reata (plural reatas)
- (Texas) A lariat or lasso.
- 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
- The riders overtook them laughing and circled the cart at a full gallop until one of them took down his reata and dropped a loop over the mule’s head and brought it to a halt.
Translations edit
lasso — see lasso
Estonian edit
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reata
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reata
- inflection of reatar:
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Etymology 1 edit
Deverbal from reatar (“to retie”).
Noun edit
reata f (plural reatas)
- rope, lasso
- single file
- (Guatemala, Mexico, vulgar) penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
- (Honduras, colloquial) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
reata
- inflection of reatar:
Further reading edit
- “reata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014