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muleteer

NOUN
  1. a worker who drives mules

How To Use muleteer In A Sentence

  • Louise Martin tells us that 'they did not know what to call the manipulator-actor back in that day,' and that Van Volkenburg, with some misgivings, hit on the word puppeteer following from the term for a mule-driver, a muleteer. Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City
  • I went off in search of a muleteer called Dorje; voices soon hollered his name from rooftop to window to fields and back again.
  • The final, and perhaps the most important reason to make, at the very least, an attempt at a language, is to entertain bored guides, muleteers and border police.
  • He watched departures from harbours, joined drovers crossing fords and muleteers breasting hills, embarked on ferries for no purpose.
  • The routes are remote and just arduous enough to appreciate the stops when Pedro the muleteer will pull down a freezer bag of home-made lemonade and a bottle of fino.
  • Instead of the glittering line of mailed warriors, we behold the patient train of the toilful muleteer, slowly moving along the skirts of the mountain. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
  • Our caravan was vast - muleteers and porters were in the lead; head porter, cook and guide tramped behind them in the middle; Olivia and I brought up the rear, some seventeen people and two ponies in all.
  • We paused to let some Berber muleteers pass us, their donkeys' panniers loaded with the skis and packs of another climbing party.
  • The Spanish muleteers were the best company, but not many of them actually climb.
  • The bullockies, and from 1853 Spanish muleteers from Uruquay, travelled in long convoys, and where they made camp for the night little inns sprung up and around these small townships grew, each about fifteen kilometres apart.
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