muleteer
Americannoun
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muleteers
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of muleteer
1530–40; < Middle French muletier, equivalent to mulet ( see mule 1, -et) + -ier -ier 2; see -eer
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Our chief muleteer, Juvenal Cobos, who had been to Machu Picchu on a school field trip in the 1950s, confirmed this.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2011
Andreas Aroditis sang convincingly as Ramiro, the socially awkward muleteer whom Concepción eventually bends to her will.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2011
It led him to jobs such as muleteer, waiter, stevedore, hack driver.
From Time Magazine Archive
If late afternoon finds a muleteer in the valley, he gets panicky and whips his beasts to escape lefore sunset.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a second muleteer had come with the same breathless haste he gave the quiet order, “You will take these señors to Santa Gertrudis.”
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
A party of Tibetan muleteers was seated around an open fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1769, Franciscan Father Junipero Serra with 75 Spanish soldiers and a gang of Mexican muleteers journeyed 900 mi. overland from Lower California to the Pacific, which they reached at the sandspit of San Diego.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their muleteers ran fearfully away, carrying with them the supplies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The action opened with a burst of scholarly enterprise in February when two grizzled Andean muleteers came down from the mountains near Santiago to report that they had a "mummy" to sell.
From Time Magazine Archive
They may not be as warm as houses, but they keep off the wind, and afford a great protection to the muleteers at night.
From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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