Crossword-Solution: APAREJO 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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.

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.

Back of "C" Troop's quarters lolled a half-breed 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.

Burns alluded to an _aparejo_ or an _arroyo_ as casually as Jack would say "singletree" or "furrow," and his stories brought the distant plains country very near.

One night as we sat at dinner in his house, he suddenly leaned back in his chair and said with a smile "I can't tell you how I enjoy having a man at my table who knows the difference between a _parfleche_ and an _aparejo_." Although I loved the trail I had given up shooting.