reata

• riata

Borrowed from Spanish reata.

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈɑːtə/

reata (plural reatas)

1. A lariat or lasso.
   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

     The riders overtook them laughing and circled the cart at a full gallop until one of them took down his reata and dropped a loop over the mule’s head and brought it to a halt.

From reatar (“retie”).

• IPA^(key): /reˈata/, [reˈat̪a]

reata f (plural reatas)

1. rope, lasso
2. single file
3. (Guatemala, Mexico, vulgar) penis
4. (Honduras, colloquial) drunkenness

• (penis): See Thesaurus:pene.
• (drunkenness): See Thesaurus:borrachera.

• reatazo

• “reata” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.