aparelloa

Attested since the 15th century. An old diminutive of aparello (“device”): aparello +‎ -oa.

• IPA^(key): /apaɾeˈʎoa̝/

aparelloa m (plural aparelloas)

1. (construction, dated) stretcher for moving heavy loads in short trajects
   • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 118:

     Iten sabado seginte destes ao dito Alvaro da Rocha et seu moço dose moravedis et a septe carpenteiros cinquoeenta et seis moravedis et a quatro serventes des et oyto moravedis et a oyto serventes do Girio oyto moravedis hũa aparelloa çinquo moravedis que monta noveenta et nove moravedis.

     Item, next Saturday you paid to said Álvaro da Rocha and his apprentice twelve maravedis and to seven carpenters fifty-six maravedis and to four servants eighteen maravedis and to eight servants of the shire eight maravedis, a stretcher five maravedis, which amounts to ninety-nine maravedis

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aparelloa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aparelloa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aparelloa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega