riata

English

Alternative forms

• reata

Etymology

From Spanish reata, from reatar (“to retie”). Compare lariat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɑːtə/

Noun

riata (plural riatas)

1. (US, regional) A lariat or lasso. [from 19th c.]
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter I:

     “You double-crossing devil,” the young man growled. “ […] Hereafter you'll trot ahead of me at the end of a riata, while I keep you on the jump with a four-horse whip. Right now you're scattering my dunnage from hell to breakfast, […] ”

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 429:

     A few blocks from the capitol we stripped him, cut off everything hanging between his legs, then fixed him with a riata and dragged him up and down Congress.

Anagrams

• Arita, Atari, Taira, aarti, arati, atari, atria, raita, taira, tarai, tiara

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrjata/ [ˈrja.t̪a]

Noun

riata f (plural riatas)

1. (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, colloquial) a beating
2. (El Salvador, Honduras, colloquial) drunkenness

Synonyms

• (drunkenness): See Thesaurus:borrachera.

Further reading

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