honda
noun
hon·da
ˈhändə
variants or less commonly hondo
-n(ˌ)dō
plural -s
: a metal, knotted, or spliced eye at one end of a lariat through which the other end is passed to form a running noose or lasso
Word History
Etymology
Spanish honda sling, from Latin funda, perhaps from Greek sphendonē
First Known Use
1887, in the meaning defined above
- single cut
- single digits
- single doubler
- single entry
- single escheat
- single father
- single figures
- single file
- single fish
- single jack
- single jacker
- single knot
- single malt
- single man
- single market
- single money
- single mother
- single nickel salt
- single nontransferable vote
- single out
- single parent
- single premium
- single rhyme
- single shear
- single Spanish burton