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Definition of Lassoing

1. lasso [v] - See also: lasso

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lassoing

Literary usage of Lassoing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings: With Extracts from a Diary of Salado by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1865)
"lassoing Horses for the Journey—Crossing the Paso de Miura and through Esperanza Colony—Hrst ... Soldiers and peons are lassoing horses in the large corral, ..."

2. Cattle-raising on the Plains of North America by Walter Von Richthofen (1885)
"CHAPTER V. BRANDING, lassoing, ROUND-UP, COWBOYS, RANCH, AND RANGE. TERMS used in the cattle business are not generally known East and abroad, ..."

3. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"lassoing a Mule.— Price of Mules.—Launching the Boat.—A Bivouac.—Arrival at Salvador.— Banks of the Salado.—Birds. ..."

4. Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep by William Shepherd (1885)
".Before he can be loaded again he has to be caught, which means a deal of galloping among the ordinary experts at lassoing. By the time the saddle and pack ..."

5. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... of Procedure—Accept an Offer of a Morning's Amusement—lassoing Wild Horses—Description of the Feat—Californian equestrian Accoutrements—The Sequel—Fatal ..."

6. The Golden State: A History of the Region West of the Rocky Mountains by Rolander Guy McClellan (1872)
"Sheep and wool—Horses—Cattle raising and branding—Rodeos— Native horsemanship—lassoing grizzly bears—Poultry and bees. SHEEP AND WOOL. ..."

7. Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexico: In Eighteen Hundred Forty-six by Luther Giddings (1853)
"lassoing a team.—Return to Monterey. THE reader who traces on the map of Mexico, the long line occupied by our troops in the winter of 1846, in distant and ..."

8. The Land of the Long Night by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1899)
"lassoing REINDEER. — DESCRIPTION OP THE REINDEER. AFTER leaving this hamlet where I had such an odd bath, I came to a farm where I saw sleighs the like of ..."

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