mecate

[ muh-kah-tee ]

noun

1. Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mecate¹

1840–50; < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl mecatl cord, rope

Example Sentences

By the time we arrived at Teresita’s house, towing the bleating goat by a mecate, an old rope, tied in a sailor’s knot around its neck, the sun was completely out.

From Literature

It reads, in its entirety: “If it all: when you took my soul by mecate tied with another state.”

From Washington Times