单词 | muleteer |
释义 | muleteern. A mule-driver. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > conveyance by pack-animals > one who > muleteer 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). < n.1538 |
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