cacoletn.

/kakolɛ//kakolɛt/

/kakəˈlɛt/

Etymology: dialect French, applied in the Pyrenees to a contrivance fixed on the back of a mule or horse for carrying travellers over the mountains, a mule chair.

A military litter for the sick or wounded carried by mules; either in the form of arm-chairs suspended one on each side of a mule, or of a bed laid along the beast's back. First employed by the French in the Crimean War, 1854–5.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter > carried on horses or mules > for sick or wounded

brancard1592

cacolet1878

1878 A. G. F. Griffiths Eng. Army iv. 108 One hundred pack animals, seventy-six of which carry double litters, or ‘cacolets’, for patients.

1884 Gen. Graham in Times 4 Apr. 11 Ambulances and mule cacolets were sent for.

1885 Observer 8 Feb. 5/4 The wounded who have been successfully removed from Gubat in cacolets.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	cacolet
释义	cacoletn. /kakolɛ//kakolɛt//kakəˈlɛt/ Etymology: dialect French, applied in the Pyrenees to a contrivance fixed on the back of a mule or horse for carrying travellers over the mountains, a mule chair. A military litter for the sick or wounded carried by mules; either in the form of arm-chairs suspended one on each side of a mule, or of a bed laid along the beast's back. First employed by the French in the Crimean War, 1854–5. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter > carried on horses or mules > for sick or wounded brancard1592 cacolet1878 1878 A. G. F. Griffiths Eng. Army iv. 108 One hundred pack animals, seventy-six of which carry double litters, or ‘cacolets’, for patients. 1884 Gen. Graham in Times 4 Apr. 11 Ambulances and mule cacolets were sent for. 1885 Observer 8 Feb. 5/4 The wounded who have been successfully removed from Gubat in cacolets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1878
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