houlihan

See also: Houlihan

English

Noun

houlihan (plural houlihans)

1. A kind of lasso throw.
   • 2009, Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart, page 214:

     But if he could not throw the houlihan, he still might get down in the dirt of the corral to help with dehorning, castrating, and branding.

Alternative forms

• hooley-ann, hoolihan