mule litter en · NOUN
Meanings
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A litter pulled or borne by one or more mules.
The traveller may ride a donkey, a mule, or a pony; or he may use a barrow, a cart, a sedan chair, a boat, or a shentzŭ... The shentzŭ belongs more particularly to the north, and might be best described as a large sedan chair having an arched roof, the floor of the chair roomy enough to let a person lie on it; but whereas the chair is carried on men's shoulders, the shafts of the shentzŭ rest on the backs of mules. Shentzŭ is the Chinese name for what we would call a mule litter. As this conveyance can go over almost any kind of road, I decided on it, and engaged two mules for the litter, and a donkey for the baggage: the three animals with the shentzŭ and a man cost 1300 cash per day when we travelled, and 700 cash per day when we rested from any cause.
1896, Alexander Armstrong, In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius, pages 2-3:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mule litters | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| mulelitter | alternative | lexicographic | |
| mule-litter | alternative | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
cacolet · travois · mule chair · takhtrawan
Translations (4)
cmn 騾馱轎 /骡驮轿 (Translations) · la basterna (Translations) · cmn 騾轎 /骡轿 (Translations) · cmn 軕子 (Translations)