muleteer
/ˌmjuːlɪˈtɪə
/noun
A person who drives mules.The cost for a week of trekking in the park for two hikers - plus a scout, a guide, a muleteer, and two pack animals (all mandatory) - was roughly $200....
- He watched departures from harbours, joined drovers crossing fords and muleteers breasting hills, embarked on ferries for no purpose.
- Our caravan was vast - muleteers and porters were in the lead; head porter, cook and guide tramped behind them in the middle; Olivia and I brought up the rear, some seventeen people and two ponies in all.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French muletier, from mulet, diminutive of Old French mul 'mule'.
Rhymes
- do someone (or oneself) a mischief
- do someone out of
- do someone over
- do someone proud
- do someone's head in
- do someone/thing a power of good
- do someone/thing down
- do someone/thing justice
- do someone to death
- do someone up
- do someone wrong
- do something for one's country (or England etc.)
- do something in
- do something (or nothing) for
- do something out
- do something over
- do something to death
- do something until (or till) one is blue in the face
- do something up
- Dos Passos, John
- doss
- dossal
- dosser
- dosseret
- dosshouse