单词 | cargador |
释义 | cargadorn. In Spanish America: a porter (see also quot. 1892). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > conveyance by pack-animals > one who sumpterc1290 mayoral1598 sumpter boya1616 packer1694 packhorse man1725 cargador1811 packman1828 1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain I. 39 The existence of these valleys prevents the inhabitants from travelling except on horseback, afoot, or carried on the shoulders of Indians, (called cargadores). 1844 G. W. Kendall Narr. Santa Fé Exped. II. xix. 362 Cargadores, with their leather trousers rolled up. 1889 K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 iv. 36 Nearly naked cargadores, or native porters [bent] beneath heavy burdens. 1892 Dial. Notes 1 245 Cargador, the man in charge of the packs, in a pack train. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. viii. 81 A cargador would fly out head first and hands abroad. 1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent xvi. 245 The cargadores were busy at the charcoal boats, carrying out the rough sacks. 1958 Alaska Sportsman Dec. 34/3 The ‘cargodore’ is Chinese, two of the packers are Tahitan natives and the cook..is Chinese. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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