DEFINITIONS 13 



Picket Rope — A rope used to tether an animal and keep 

 it from wandering while grazing. Also the rope to 

 which many animals are fastened in rank. 



Rendering Ring — The ring through which the Latigo is 

 passed to cinch it and make it fast. 



Riding Load— The load or pack that is carried above and 

 between the two side packs. 



Rigging — The complete aparejo. 



Running Pari — Same as Running Rope. 



Running Rope — That part of a rope between the free end 

 and that place on the Rope at which movement, as 

 in pulling or tightening, ceases. Thus, in a block 

 and pulley the portion of the rope between one 

 pulley and where it is fastened to the bottom of 

 the other pulley, never moves, as do the other ropes 

 in hauling; it is the standing part. The rest is the 

 Running Part or Parts. It is the same in the turns 

 of any hitch, one portion of the rope is immovable 

 on the packs; the rest is the Running Part. 



San> BucJ^ Saddle — See Chapter for description of the 

 same. 



Sling Rope— The rope used to hold the packs on the 

 animal's back in the proper place so that the hitch 

 may be thrown. It is about 30 feet long. 



Sohre-j alma— The aparejo cover with the heavy horizontal 

 sticks on each side that holds the lower turns of 

 the hitch on both sides. (Variously known as the 

 sobber hammer, soldier hammer, sovereign, etc.) 



Standing Part — See Running Rope. 

 Standing Rope — See Running Rope. 

 Striding Load — Same aS Riding Load. 

 Top Load — Same as Riding Load. 



