Reata vs Recta - What's the difference?
reata | recta |
A lariat or lasso.
:* 1994': 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. — Cormac McCarthy, ''The Crossing
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)
* 1983 : John Oliver Killens, And Then We Heard the Thunder , p321
As nouns the difference between reata and recta
is that reata is a lariat or lasso while recta is the concise oxford english dictionary (eleventh edition).reata
English
Noun
(en noun)Alternative forms
* riata ----recta
English
Noun
(head) (p)- They were scared deep in their recta , but they leaped out of the foxhole and ran to the rescue, but by the time they got there Bucket-head had already stopped one of the enemy and the rest of them headed back upstream.
