honda

Meaning

Noun

• A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
• A grommet or other device intended to strengthen or otherwise improve a simple rope honda.

Origin

• Probably from Spanish honda, fonda, from Latin funda ("hand#Noun"); or from Spanish hondón ("[[eye of a needle"), from hondo (from Latin fundus ("bottom, lowest [[part#Noun"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o, from *bʰudʰmḗn) + -ón.