Definition of "catchrope"

Lute Springer halted as abruptly as if he'd been snared by a catchrope.

1973, Richard Brister, Cat Eyes, page 23

They went to work on the green colts daybreak Sunday morning, dressing in the half dark in clothes still wet from their washing them the night before and walking out to the potrero before the stars were down, eating a cold tortilla wrapped around a scoop of cold beans and no coffee and carrying their forty foot maguey catchropes coiled over their shoulders.

1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, page 105

Tuck takes the turns off his saddle horn and makes that shaggy outlaw a gift of his prize catchrope.

2008, Richard E. Baker, Letters from Across the Big Divide: The Ghost Writings of Charles M. Russell, page 108

He sat astride the bay horse, but now with a catchrope dallied to his saddle horn and a sleek buckskin filly side-wheeling in the cross-trail behind him.

2012, C. Joseph Greaves, Hard Twisted, page 158