Lasso

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Synonyms for Lasso

Belgian composer (1532-1594)

a long noosed rope used to catch animals

catch with a lasso

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"I had to call the boss and warn him we were going to be late for the next job as I had just lassoed a horse and had to wait for the police to arrive," Grant said.
As a result he lassoed a member of the patrol and the smuggler got away.
THE scene was more Wild West than West Midlands when ten firefighters lassoed a bull and pulled it from a canal.
He can't imagine being stuck at Camp Wild, lassoed to Herb, pursued by young, Wilf-worshipping Charlie for the next two weeks.
Inspectors believe the cable was "lassoed" round the bird's neck earlier the same day.
A wildlife official lassoed the omnivore, meaning it eats anything--including small mammals, birds, carrion, and fruit, before the train departed for town.
In the second selection, "Dyaspora," Joanne Hyppolite captures the work's main theme as she writes about the sense of being at once connected and disconnected: to be called Dyaspora and feel like an outsider when you are in Haiti; and to live as a Haitian-American in a house that your native culture "has lassoed...with an invisible rope," while surviving in the other world outside your door, whose concept of you is based on ignorance and intolerance.
The charming Argentinean was lassoed by Francis Greenberger, and now divides his time between coaching tennis at Tennisport and leasing real estate.