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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On top of both was placed the aparejo, which was cinched by a wide grass-bandage.
From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill
The marks of the crupper, aparejo and girth never would disappear.
From Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford
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
When Brooke moved to sit on an aparejo, Pete ordered him to one of the kitchen boxes.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
The packing down and shaping of the aparejo so loosened the cinch and ropes that frequently it was necessary to stop and tighten them all after a mile or so had been put behind.
From Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford
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
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
When we look out of our windows, we see the aparejos, which are the saddles put on the mules when they are loaded.
From Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
I stopped a few days there, nevertheless, to buy some Mexican pack-saddles, called aparejos, which, roughly speaking, are leather bags stuffed with straw, to be fastened over the mules’ backs.
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
A sharp-eyed scout reported two pack-mules, their aparejos bulging with dobie dollars, in the train.
From When the West Was Young by Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie) Bechdolt
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