aparejo

Borrowed from Spanish aparejo.

aparejo (plural aparejos or aparejoes)

1. (historical, especially military) A kind of packsaddle formerly used in the United States military, and in Latin America, made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or similar substances.

• “aparejo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /apaˈɾexo/ [a.paˈɾe.xo]
• Rhymes: -exo
• Syllabification: a‧pa‧re‧jo

Deverbal from aparejar.

aparejo m (plural aparejos)

1. fishing tackle
2. gear, equipment
3. elevation hoist
4. (nautical) rigging
5. packsaddle

aparejo

1. first-person singular present indicative of aparejar

• “aparejo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024