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lassu

lassu is the archaic form of lasso.

Meaning of lasso

Noun

lasso (plural lassos or lassoes)

  1. A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.
    • He managed to catch the runaway bull with a lasso.
  2. An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.

See all 3 meanings of lasso

Forms of lassu

Noun
plurallassus
plurallassues
Verb
third-person singular presentlassus
third-person singular presentlassues
present participlelassuing
past participlelassued
pastlassued

Questions about lassu

What is lassu the archaic form of?
Lassu is the archaic form of lasso.

Words near lassu in the dictionary

  1. lassoo
  2. lassopeptide
  3. lassopeptides
  4. lassos
  5. lassos up
  6. lassu
  7. lassued
  8. lassues
  9. lassuing
  10. lassus
  11. Lasswade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lassu (page history and authors); lasso (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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