catchrope

plural catchropes

1. alternativeAlternative form of catch-rope.

   Lute Springer halted as abruptly as if he'd been snared by a catchrope.

   1973, Richard Brister, Cat Eyes, page 23

   3 more examples

   They went to work on the green colts daybreak Sunday morning, dressing in the half dark in clothes still wet from their washing them the night before and walking out to the potrero before the stars were down, eating a cold tortilla wrapped around a scoop of cold beans and no coffee and carrying their forty foot maguey catchropes coiled over their shoulders.

   1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 105

   Tuck takes the turns off his saddle horn and makes that shaggy outlaw a gift of his prize catchrope.

   2008, Richard E. Baker, Letters from Across the Big Divide: The Ghost Writings of Charles M. Russell, page 108

   He sat astride the bay horse, but now with a catchrope dallied to his saddle horn and a sleek buckskin filly side-wheeling in the cross-trail behind him.

   2012, C. Joseph Greaves, Hard Twisted, page 158