muleteer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of muleteer
1530–40; < Middle French muletier, equivalent to mulet ( mule 1, -et ) + -ier -ier 2; -eer
Example Sentences
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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
If late afternoon finds a muleteer in the valley, he gets panicky and whips his beasts to escape lefore sunset.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It led him to jobs such as muleteer, waiter, stevedore, hack driver.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Crash! the kit of mining tools dropped from the shoulder of the muleteer who had asked the question, and it had no more than touched earth before it was buried under the other pieces.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman
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