hamal
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hamal
1960–65; < Arabic hammāl porter, carrier, akin to hamala to carry
Example Sentences
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He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper, who learned survival on the wharves of Turkish Constantinople.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went and fetched the hamal, who slunk through his task with the air of a condemned felon.
From Guns of the Gods by Mundy, Talbot
The hamal made the tiger-noises in twenty different keys.
From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Kipling, Rudyard
"Meeta and the ayah and the hamal and Bhini-in-the-Garden, and the salaam-Captain-Sahib-snake-man."
From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Kipling, Rudyard
He orders about the other servants with a fuller voice than before, and when anyone calls for a chair, he no longer brings one himself, but commands the hamal to do so.
From Behind the Bungalow by Aitken, Edward Hamilton
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