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muleteer

American  
[myoo-luh-teer] / ˌmju ləˈtɪər /

noun

  • muleteers
    plural
  1. a driver of mules.


muleteer British  
/ ˌmjuːlɪˈtɪə /

noun

  1. a person who drives mules

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

"Can I borrow a muleteer for an hour or two?"

From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

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

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

Their muleteers ran fearfully away, carrying with them the supplies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A party of Tibetan muleteers was seated around an open fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout the middle ages the Mavrovlachi were usually nomadic shepherds, cattle-drovers or muleteers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

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