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单词 muleteer
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muleteern.

Brit. /ˌmjuːlᵻˈtɪə/, U.S. /ˌmjul(ə)ˈtɪ(ə)r/
Forms: 1500s mewlyter, 1500s moyleteer, 1500s muletour, 1500s muletteer, 1500s mulettoure, 1500s–1600s muleter, 1500s–1600s muletor, 1500s–1600s muletter, 1500s–1600s mulettor, 1500s–1600s mulettour, 1500s–1600s muliter, 1600s mulatier, 1600s mule-letter (transmission error), 1600s muletier, 1600s mulettier, 1600s–1700s muliteer, 1600s–1700s mulitier, 1600s–1800s mulateer, 1700s– muleteer; Scottish pre-1700 mulater, pre-1700 muletter, pre-1700 mulitar, pre-1700 muliter, pre-1700 multer, 1700s– muleteer.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French muletier.
Etymology: < Middle French muletier official of the kings household (c1325), person who keeps mules (late 14th cent.) < mulet mulet n. + -ier -eer suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin mulactarius (1237), mulaterius (1336, < French), muletterius (1494), Italian mulattiere (1317), Spanish mulatero (1490), muletero (1604), Portuguese mulateiro (16th cent.).
A mule-driver.
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muleteer1538
muletc1575
arriero1763
mule skinner1870
skinner1870
drabi1900
1538 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 404 Mulitaris.
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xvii. f. 31v A horsekeper and a mulettour.
1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Pjv Do you judge they coulde easily fynde in theyr hertes that..so many moyleteers..shoulde have cause to crie on theim?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. v. 27 Base Muleters of France. View more context for this quotation
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 387 On Mayday, the greate Procession of the Universitie, & the Mulatiers at st. Antonies.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables (1694) ccccxvii. 451 It far'd worse here with the State-Ass than with the Muletiers.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxi. 72 The under-gardener dress'd the muleteer's hat in hot wine-lees.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 541 The creature is so sure to kick and bite A muleteer's the man to set him right.
1824 J. Morier Adventures Hajji Baba I. ix. 91 The muleteer..recommended me strongly to become a saka, or water-carrier.
1878 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 658/3 Lastly, several muleteers with mules and our luggage.
1929 Travel Jan. 8/2 Peons and muleteers have all gone away And no one has come back.
1990 Dalai Lama XIV Freedom in Exile i. 13 There were..a great number of muleteers and scouts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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