houlihan

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Noun

houlihan (plural houlihans)

  1. A kind of lasso throw.
    • 2009, Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart, page 214:
      But if he could not throw the houlihan, he still might get down in the dirt of the corral to help with dehorning, castrating, and branding.

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