See also:

• LASSO (LASSOS), ORLANDO (c. 1530-1594)
• LASSO (Span. lazo, snare, ultimately from Lat. laqueus, cf. " lace ")

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
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

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
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

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 See also:

• LASSO (LASSOS), ORLANDO (c. 1530-1594)
• LASSO (Span. lazo, snare, ultimately from Lat. laqueus, cf. " lace ")

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
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

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 (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

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 .