drabin.
/ˈdrabi/ A muleteer.
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1900 Pioneer Mail 16 Mar. The mule race for Drabis and grass-cutters was entertaining.
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 296/2 (Indian frontier) The lot of the muleteer (or drabi, as he is generally called, this being the native rendering of the English word ‘driver’) is never a very easy one.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 569/2 (Mahsudland) Mule drabis.
1927 E. Thompson These Men thy Friends 125 A fool of a drabi, who had left his mules and stumbled off, seeking India that lay to the east.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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