muleteer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of muleteer
1530–40; < Middle French muletier, equivalent to mulet ( see mule 1, -et) + -ier -ier 2; see -eer
Example Sentences
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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 Whitaker, Herman
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