Definition of Latigo

1. n. A strap for tightening a saddle girth.

Definition of Latigo

1. Noun. a strap used to tighten a cinch ¹

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Definition of Latigo

1. a strap used to fasten a saddle [n -GOS or -GOES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latigo

latibulizes
latibulizing
latices
laticifer
laticiferous
laticifers
laticlave
laticlaves
laticostate
latifolious
latifolous
latifundia
latifundio
latifundios
latifundium
latigo (current term)
latigoes
latigos
latilla
latillas
latimer
latimerias
latimers
latin
latin america
latina
latinas
latinate
latinise
latinities

Literary usage of Latigo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sun and Saddle Leather: Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems by Badger Clark (1922)
"latigo Town, ay, latigo Town, Child of the mesa sun-flooded and brown, ... latigo Town, ay, latigo Town, We made a past you are still living down, ..."

2. Handbook for Rangers & Woodsmen by Jay Laird Burgess Taylor (1916)
"Afterward, the latigo is passed upward and through the ring in the rig from the ... If the latigo is made to buckle, the buckle-tongue is thrust through it, ..."

3. War Expenditures: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Expenditures in by United States, Congress, House (1920)
"I understand; but you have got latigo leather on the list. ... You didn't buy this latigo leather for this particular contract ? Mr. LONG. Yes, sir. ..."

4. A Report to the Surgeon General on the Transport of Sick and Wounded by Pack by George Alexander Otis (1877)
"1 at the same time pulling on the latigo-stmp. When the aparejo in "'r>" ... 1'e right, and both draw on the latigo-etrap, moving their hands Látigo Strap. ..."

5. The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the by Philip Ashton Rollins (1922)
"The latigo on the saddle's off side was permanently left thus fastened, and, ... A variation from this method of fastening the latigo was often used on the ..."

6. A Tramp in Spain: From Andalusia to Andorra by Bart Kennedy (1904)
"Constant had warned me that the dogs in the country were savage and dangerous, and I had provided myself with a heavy latigo (whip). I had, of course, ..."

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