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OP This morning the drawstring of the bottom of my jacket, which has a little barrel-shaped piece of plastic on each end, had the little barrel wind around the top bar of the gate, and force me to stop abruptly.
This reminded me of that Argentine vaqueros who use a bolo
in preference to a lasso. But when I went to search for description and definition, I could find only mentions of bolo knives, bolo ties, and a weapon of mass destruction.
The bolo I am interested in is a thin buty strong rope, perhaps ten feet long, with a weight perhaps the size of a fist at each end. In use, one weight is held in the left hand, the other end is whirled, and the whole thing thrown at a running animal so that the rope is almost perpendicular to the direction of the throw. When rope hits the animals legs, one of the weights wraps the rope about the legs several times, binding the legs together, causing animal to fall and be unable to get up. I think I saw it mentioned in Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle.
I also remember a bit of newspaper hype about a boxer from Argentina who had a "bolo punch" - good only for publicity.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted bolo wwh 12/19/03 04:35 PM Re: bolo wwh 12/19/03 04:39 PM Re: bolo Bingley 12/20/03 12:21 AM
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