Oddly enough, as it seemed to us, they are milked but twice a week; and when this process is performed, each animal must be Lassoed and firmly held by one person while another milks.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Perhaps it was the wind, but certainly just then there was a sound as of a faint sigh from somewhere by the window, and it seemed as if the chaplain was recalling the past days of repose at his little home near Mayleyfield, and wondering whether he had done right to come; but no one heeded him, and the doctor went on: "Now she seems to have Lassoed young Hilton."
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
The cleanskin was Lassoed and pulled to the rails, the leg ropes were fixed and hitched, and then the front rope was handed to Sax and the back one to Vaughan.
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman