Aparejo

The equipment of a pack-mule -- mula de carga - consists first and foremost of the aparejo, which is a square pad of stuffed leather. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The art of packing, a special skill developed largely by the Mexicans, was euphonious with Spanish terms like cargadore, aparejo, suadera, and cincha. ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)

Before Crook, the army quartermaster issued a single size and design of aparejo, or pack-cushion, regardless of the size and shape of the mule. ❋ David Roberts (1994)

H. halving back, see splitting strop handline ligna main aparejo, llnea de mano hanging montage armement armar un arte ❋ Unknown (1983)

Here's to pack and aparejo, the cradle, gun trail, ❋ W. E. Christian (N/A)

The aparejo is then secured by a broad grass-band, which is drawn so tight, that the animal appears cut in two, and groans and grunts most awfully under the operation, which to a greenhorn seems most unnecessary and cruel. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The tapojos is placed over the eyes, the heavy aparejo adjusted, and the pack secured, in three minutes. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The greatest difficulty I experienced was in packing the mules, which operation, when on an aparejo, or Mexican pack-saddle, is the work of two men, and I may as well describe the process. ❋ Unknown (1916)

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 .... ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)

"I can't tell you how I enjoy having a man at my table who knows the difference between a _parfleche_ and an _aparejo_." ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

Mexican packer, with a brace of mules, one girt with saddle, the other in shrouding aparejo -- diamond-hitched, both borrowed from the post trader with whom Blakely's note of hand was good as a government four per cent. -- all ready to follow the lieutenant to the field whither right and duty called him. ❋ Charles King (1888)

The animal itself and its aparejo were never recovered by us. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

The aparejo is furnished with a huge crupper, and this appendage is really the most cruel of all, for it is almost sure to lacerate the tail. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)

A pack-mule was termed a mula de carga, and his equipment consisted of several parts; first, the saddle, or aparejo, a nearly square pad of leather stuffed with hay, which covered the animal's back on both sides equally. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)

On top of both was placed the aparejo, which was cinched by a wide grass-bandage. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)

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. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)

"Mas el Rey," says Zurita, "que siempre supo gastar su dinero provechosamente, _y nunca fue escosso en despendello en las cosas del estado_, tuvo mas aparejo para emplearlo, que para encerrarlo." ❋ William Hickling Prescott (1827)

(for groundrope) (pour bourrelet) (de relinga da promos) double knot double noeud nudo doble double rig grement double aparejo doble ❋ Unknown (1983)

_aparejo_ or an _arroyo_ as casually as Jack would say "singletree" or ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)