| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | lar·i·at |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l r  - t |
| NOUN: | 1. See lasso. 2. A rope for picketing grazing horses or mules. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Spanish la reata : la, the (from Latin illa; see al-1 in Appendix I) + reatar, to tie again ( re-, again, from Latin; see re– + atar, to tie, from Latin apt re, to join, from aptus, past participle of apere, to tie).
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