aparejo
Americannoun
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aparejos
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of aparejo
Literally, “preparation (i.e., equipment)”
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In a day or two, one is all but felled by the stench and corruption of the worm-filled wound—when the aparejo is lifted….
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
Before the aparejo was adjusted to the mule, a salea, or raw sheep-skin, made soft by rubbing, was put on the animal's back, to prevent chafing, and over it the saddle-cloth, or xerga.
From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill
Mr. Burns alluded to an aparejo or an arroyo as casually as Jack would say "singletree" or "furrow," and his stories brought the distant plains country very near.
From The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland
To the pack-saddle, or aparejo, two baskets are fastened, in which the botijas are placed with the small ends downwards.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
The animal itself and its aparejo were never recovered by us.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
He loosed the aparejos and mantas, containing the kitchen-kit; almost magically a fire was started.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
Half an hour later, with the sacks of gold securely lashed on the aparejos of the pack-horse, we climbed out of Writing-Stone bottom and swung away over the silent tablelands.
From Raw Gold A Novel by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
His new aparejos, stacked as they were finished, had gradually crowded poor Mrs. Pete into her last stronghold, the corner between the wood-box and the bunk.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
Breathing heavily with her labor, she carried loads of swampy hay, and cord-wood, until the aparejos were but part of a bonfire.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
As the room was dark, I moved this contrivance out on the veranda, where I also stored my baggage, while my aparejos and saddles were put into the prison next door.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
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