Editing Lasso (section)

{{Short description|Loop of rope used as restraint}}
{{Other uses}}
{{redirect2|Lariat|Reata|other uses|Lariat (disambiguation)|and|Reata (disambiguation)}}

[[File:California rodeo Salinas lasso bull p1050544.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|A loose bull is lassoed by a pickup rider during a [[rodeo]] in [[Salinas, California]], July 2006]]

A '''lasso''' or '''lazo''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|æ|s|oʊ}} or {{IPAc-en|l|æ|ˈ|s|uː}}), also called '''reata''' or '''la reata''' in Mexico,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rubio |first1=Darío |title=La anarquía del lenguaje en la América española, Volume 1 |date=1925 |publisher=Confederacion regional obrera mexicana |location=Mexico|pages=353, 354 |edition=1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AMhPAAAAMAAJ&q=%20En%20México,%20tratándose%20tenemos%20reata%20Lazo|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Revilla |first1=Domingo |title=El museo mexicano |date=1844 |publisher=Ignacio Cumplido |location=Mexico |page=553 |edition=Volume 3 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=h7vX10wQ9A8C&q=Reata%20lazar|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> and in the United States '''riata''' or '''lariat'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burnett Tylor |first1=Edward |title=Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans |date=1861 |publisher=Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts |location=London |page=264 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FTUBAAAAQAAJ&q=Lariat%20Reata|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> (from [[Mexican Spanish]] lasso for roping cattle),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sánchez Somoano |first1=José |title=Modismos, locuciones y términos mexicanos |date=1892 |publisher=Manuel Minuesa de los Ríos |location=Madrid |page=80 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IZ8AAAAAMAAJ&q=Reata|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> is a loop of [[rope]] designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when pulled. It is a well-known tool of the Mexican and South American cowboys, which was then adopted from the Mexicans by the [[cowboy]]s of the United States. The word is also a verb; ''to lasso'' is to throw the loop of rope around something.