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‖ cacolet|kakolɛ, -lɛt|
[dial. F., 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.
1878A. Griffiths Eng. Army iv. 108 One hundred pack animals, seventy-six of which carry double litters, or ‘cacolets’, for patients. 1884Gen. Graham in Times 4 Apr. 11 Ambulances and mule cacolets were sent for. 1885Observer 8 Feb. 5/4 The wounded who have been successfully removed from Gubat in cacolets. |