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drabi|ˈdræbɪ|
[See quot. 1920.]
A muleteer.
1900Pioneer Mail 16 Mar. (Y.), The mule race for Drabis and grass-cutters was entertaining. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. 296/2 (Indian frontier) The lot of the muleteer (or drabi, as he is generally called, this being the native rendering of the English word ‘driver’) is never a very easy one. 1920Blackw. Mag. Nov. 569/2 (Mahsudland) Mule drabis. 1927E. Thompson These Men, thy Friends 125 A fool of a drabi, who had left his mules and stumbled off, seeking India that lay to the east. |