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A knot's polite way of saying 'come here, you.'
means A long noosed rope used, especially by cowboys, to catch livestock by lassoing them.
from From Spanish 'la reata,' meaning 'the strap' or 'the rope for tying' — from 'reatar,' to tie again, built on 'atar,' to tie (ultimately from Latin 'aptare,' to fasten). English speakers borrowed it wholesale in the American Southwest, fusing 'la' and 'reata' into one word as they picked up Spanish ranching vocabulary along with the gear itself.
- origin
- from Spanish la reata, meaning the strap
- knot
- uses a sliding honda loop to tighten
- cowboy tool
- also doubles as a wrestling move name
- not a whip
- catches, it does not strike