单词 | cameleer |
释义 | cameleern. A camel-driver; a cuirassier mounted on a camel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > conveyance by pack-animals > one who > camel-driver cameller1615 camel-driver1753 cameleera1785 sarwan1821 oont-wallah1857 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > soldier mounted on camel cameleer1837 a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) iv. 76 The cameliers (men who attend, feed, load, and unload the camels). 1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 104/2 A body of trained cameleers (that is cuirassiers mounted on camels). 1883 Col. Warren in W. Besant Life Palmer xi. 309 Six of these cameleers were of the Aligât tribe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1785 |
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