Lexicographical Neighbors of Latigoes
Literary usage of Latigoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by John Avery Lomax (1919)
"Though the taut rope sing like a banjo string And the latigoes creak and strain,
Yet I've got no fear of an outlaw steer And I'll tumble him on the plain. ..."
2. Rhymes of a Homesteader by Elliott Curtis Lincoln (1920)
"His Saddle SHE'S a tough ol' center-fire, an' she's black with sweat an' dust,
Jest the leathers an' the latigoes are new. Her skirts are curled, an' dry, ..."
3. Sun and Saddle Leather: Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems by Badger Clark (1922)
"66 We have gathered fightin' pointers from the famous bronco steed 90 The taut
ropes sing like a banjo string And the latigoes creak and strain . ..."
4. Handbook for Rangers & Woodsmen by Jay Laird Burgess Taylor (1916)
"This disposition of the latigoes obviates the possibility of their becoming
entangled in brush or about the horseman's legs as he moves away from the horse. ..."
5. War Expenditures: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Expenditures in by United States, Congress, House (1920)
"We used the Rock Island allowance in regard to latigoes. Mr. GRAHAM. The rest of
that side, then, you figure as waste ? Mr. GRAHAM. What is that allowance? ..."
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