aparejo

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See also: aparejó

English

Etymology

From Spanish aparejo.

Noun

aparejo (plural aparejos or aparejoes)

  1. A kind of packsaddle formerly used in the American military and among the Spanish Americans, made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for aparejo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Spanish

Etymology 1

Deverbal from aparejar.

Noun

aparejo m (plural aparejos)

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

Etymology 2

Verb

aparejo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of aparejar

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