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Definition of lasso in English: lassonounPlural lassoes, Plural lassos ˈlasəʊləˈsuː A rope with a noose at one end, used especially in North America for catching cattle. 北美捕牛用的套索 Example sentencesExamples - If you have a lasso and rope one of the horses, you would gain speed and the Merry-Go-Round would lose some.
- I'd come out with the milk bottles, and she'd walk beside me with her skipping rope, whirling it around her head like a lasso.
- She draws a long whip gently across their backs and legs to get them used to ropes and lassos as their forebears would have been.
- Nobody would ever ask you what your family's name was or where you came from if you wanted to buy a Guernsey fisherman's sweater or if you really throw a lasso before selling you a pair of cowboy boots.
- She fell through the ice several times, but I would just throw her a rope, like a cowboy with a lasso.
- The rope could be secured to the saddle before throwing the lasso; this could be accomplished by using a clip.
- Probably because it doesn't involve lassos or bucking bulls, cutting horse is watched and practiced almost exclusively by equine sports nerds.
- Holding onto the flying canvas with one hand, he deftly tied one end of the rope into a lasso.
- She may not be able to tackle him anymore, but she does still have her lasso at her side, and he is standing so close that if she just slung it over his neck I doubt he could run away.
- After the condor landed to feed, a signal was given and the men swooped down from all sides, shouting and swinging their lassos and ponchos.
- Horse brushes were scattered on the floor and ropes and lassos hung from the walls.
- They enjoy competing to see who can throw their reindeer lassos the farthest and with the greatest precision.
- Her lasso in one hand and a smaller rope in the other, she breathed trying not to think much about what happened 15 minutes ago.
- As you're making the lassos (use one string of lights per coil), twist the cord and adjust the length of the loops so the bulbs face outward and are spaced unevenly.
- Among children, foot races and playing with dolls and lassos are the most typical pastimes.
- He grabs it by the rope and swings it around as if it is a lasso.
- Not only do the cables disappear behind the bodies of the sitters and skewer them to the walls, they also function as metaphors of entrapment and recall snares, chains, nets, lassoes and nooses.
- A few moments later, the drums rumbling as we began the march back to the theatre, a gang of cowboys appeared and began roping our walking gents with their lassos.
- They had cowboy hats and lassos on one western number, which you'd recognize if I whistled if for you, but I can't recall what it's called.
- He grabs it by the rope and swings it around like a lasso.
verblassoes, lassoed, lassoing ˈlasəʊləˈsuː [with object]Catch (an animal) with a lasso. 用套索套捕（动物） at last his father lassoed the horse 最后他父亲套住了那匹马。 Example sentencesExamples - But local Fire Brigade members rode to the rescue, lassoed the animal and dragged him to safety.
- The cows were lassoed by passers-by as they floated under the bridge at Fitzroy.
- A painting in the first category, The Bronc Rider Started Early, shows a cowboy in a corral lassoing a horse.
- The Territory was the place where he first established his own empire, 1,500 miles removed from his aristocratic clan in Manhattan, and it was the place where he learned to lasso a bull.
- The next day and later at their leisure the cattle were lassoed, taken out of the pen and slaughtered.
- They capture parrots by lassoing them with a small noose attached to the end of a pole.
- From several metres, the youths take turns lassoing the antlers with rope, like cowboys rustling cattle.
- The Kazakh who had guided us from Jiadengyu to Hemu the day before lassoed his horses and wandered through the village, hoping to strike a deal with tourists looking for a horse ride back to Jiadengyu.
- Naturally, on the third day, he lassoed a shark and the shark pulled him to shore.
- Capturing a manatee is like lassoing a bucking bronco, only underwater.
- The former president sternly inquires of Barker whether he knows the best way to lasso a wild horse.
- These attempts are like trying to lasso a tiger with cotton.
- The baqueanos (local horsemen who help Alec) are all charming and when they get bored Roberto, Pato or Chapulin are liable to liven things up by galloping off to lasso cattle or instigating crazy, pell-mell races.
- School geography books talked of the Pampas, horses were on every page and cattle were lassoed before being killed for the Argentinian staple diet.
- Of course, in some cases, they won't do either, which is when it helps to lasso them and drag them behind your horse.
- They were being herded, corralled, and lassoed, as it were, by high-tech means.
Synonyms tie, bind, lash, truss, pinion
OriginMid 18th century: representing an American Spanish pronunciation of Spanish lazo, based on Latin laqueus 'noose'. Compare with lace. lace from Middle English: This comes from Latin laqueus ‘noose’ which was also found as an early sense in English and is still the basic sense of the Spanish-American equivalent, lasso (mid 18th century). The fine openwork fabric of looping threads was known as lace from the middle of the 16th century. The verb lace, to mean ‘fortify’ and ‘flavour’ as in to lace a drink, is from the late 17th century. Lacerate (Late Middle English) is unrelated, coming from Latin lacerare ‘to mangle, tear’.
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- If you have a lasso and rope one of the horses, you would gain speed and the Merry-Go-Round would lose some.
- Nobody would ever ask you what your family's name was or where you came from if you wanted to buy a Guernsey fisherman's sweater or if you really throw a lasso before selling you a pair of cowboy boots.
- A few moments later, the drums rumbling as we began the march back to the theatre, a gang of cowboys appeared and began roping our walking gents with their lassos.
- He grabs it by the rope and swings it around as if it is a lasso.
- She may not be able to tackle him anymore, but she does still have her lasso at her side, and he is standing so close that if she just slung it over his neck I doubt he could run away.
- I'd come out with the milk bottles, and she'd walk beside me with her skipping rope, whirling it around her head like a lasso.
- She draws a long whip gently across their backs and legs to get them used to ropes and lassos as their forebears would have been.
- After the condor landed to feed, a signal was given and the men swooped down from all sides, shouting and swinging their lassos and ponchos.
- As you're making the lassos (use one string of lights per coil), twist the cord and adjust the length of the loops so the bulbs face outward and are spaced unevenly.
- Her lasso in one hand and a smaller rope in the other, she breathed trying not to think much about what happened 15 minutes ago.
- The rope could be secured to the saddle before throwing the lasso; this could be accomplished by using a clip.
- They had cowboy hats and lassos on one western number, which you'd recognize if I whistled if for you, but I can't recall what it's called.
- He grabs it by the rope and swings it around like a lasso.
- She fell through the ice several times, but I would just throw her a rope, like a cowboy with a lasso.
- Probably because it doesn't involve lassos or bucking bulls, cutting horse is watched and practiced almost exclusively by equine sports nerds.
- Among children, foot races and playing with dolls and lassos are the most typical pastimes.
- Holding onto the flying canvas with one hand, he deftly tied one end of the rope into a lasso.
- Horse brushes were scattered on the floor and ropes and lassos hung from the walls.
- Not only do the cables disappear behind the bodies of the sitters and skewer them to the walls, they also function as metaphors of entrapment and recall snares, chains, nets, lassoes and nooses.
verb [with object]Catch (an animal) with a lasso. 用套索套捕（动物） at last his father lassoed the horse 最后他父亲套住了那匹马。 Example sentencesExamples - A painting in the first category, The Bronc Rider Started Early, shows a cowboy in a corral lassoing a horse.
- The Kazakh who had guided us from Jiadengyu to Hemu the day before lassoed his horses and wandered through the village, hoping to strike a deal with tourists looking for a horse ride back to Jiadengyu.
- The Territory was the place where he first established his own empire, 1,500 miles removed from his aristocratic clan in Manhattan, and it was the place where he learned to lasso a bull.
- They capture parrots by lassoing them with a small noose attached to the end of a pole.
- Capturing a manatee is like lassoing a bucking bronco, only underwater.
- Of course, in some cases, they won't do either, which is when it helps to lasso them and drag them behind your horse.
- From several metres, the youths take turns lassoing the antlers with rope, like cowboys rustling cattle.
- Naturally, on the third day, he lassoed a shark and the shark pulled him to shore.
- But local Fire Brigade members rode to the rescue, lassoed the animal and dragged him to safety.
- School geography books talked of the Pampas, horses were on every page and cattle were lassoed before being killed for the Argentinian staple diet.
- The next day and later at their leisure the cattle were lassoed, taken out of the pen and slaughtered.
- The former president sternly inquires of Barker whether he knows the best way to lasso a wild horse.
- These attempts are like trying to lasso a tiger with cotton.
- The cows were lassoed by passers-by as they floated under the bridge at Fitzroy.
- The baqueanos (local horsemen who help Alec) are all charming and when they get bored Roberto, Pato or Chapulin are liable to liven things up by galloping off to lasso cattle or instigating crazy, pell-mell races.
- They were being herded, corralled, and lassoed, as it were, by high-tech means.
Synonyms tie, bind, lash, truss, pinion
OriginMid 18th century: representing an American Spanish pronunciation of Spanish lazo, based on Latin laqueus ‘noose’. Compare with lace. |