| 单词 | mule skinner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmule skinner mule skinner n. North American (a) a prairie mule-driver; (b) a whip used in driving mules. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > driver of a team of draught animals goadman1606 goad-groom1614 teamer1696 teamster1758 team man1763 goadsman1788 teamsman1792 voorloper1837 mule skinner1870 swamper1870 tracer1899 skinner1910 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > conveyance by pack-animals > one who > muleteer muleteer1538 muletc1575 arriero1763 mule skinner1870 skinner1870 drabi1900 1870 J. H. Beadle Life in Utah 224 I took to the plains..in the capacity of a ‘mule-skinner’. 1912 R. A. Wason Friar Tuck vii. 71 He would stand up an' yell, crack his mule-skinner, and send the ponies along on a dead run. 1945 B. A. Botkin Lay my Burden Down 169 The massa took down his long mule skinner. 1994 Senior World Newsmag. (San Bernadino, Calif.) Apr. 18/5 Coming face to face with these odd creatures scared the wits out of the more commonly used mules... The muleskinners understandably objected. < as lemmas |
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