Also lazo. [f. LASSO sb.]
1. trans. To catch with a lasso.
1807. Exped. to Buenos Ayres, 6. Here and there they ‘lassoed’ the stragglers.
1831. Trelawny, Adv. Younger Son, xxv. (1890), 116. Like the wild horse … lazoed by the South American Gauchoes.
1881. Du Chaillu, Land of Midnight Sun, II. 80. A man went into the wood and returned with a deer he had lassoed.
1891. Smiles, J. Murray, II. xxviii. 252. He … crossed the Pampas, catching and lassoing wild horses.
2. Mil. To draw (guns, etc.) with lasso-harness.
1864. Daily Tel., 14 March, 3/5. The attention of his Royal Highness was directed to the mode of lassoing guns, as practised by the mounted troop of the Royal Engineers.
Hence Lassoed ppl. a., Lassoing vbl. sb. Also Lassoer, one who lassoes.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 5 May, 5/4. Called in to treat cases of private shooting, stabbing, and lassoing.
1881. Darwin, in Life & Lett., III. 245. A struggling and lassoed cow.
1882. Sala, Amer. Revis. (1885), 413. The … neighing of our lassoed horses.
1896. Chamb. Jrnl., XIII. 16/2. The lassoers often manage to take two or three [horses] per man.
