Dictionary

muleteer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌmjuːləˈtɪə(ɹ)/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From French muletier, from mulet (“mule”), with the spelling influenced by English mule + -eer.

Meanings

1. A mule driver.
   • A guy is sitting on the lead mule. He's the muleteer, .... 1982, Don DeLillo, The Names, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 339:
   • This was a tender point with the muleteer; his honour was wounded when his mules were treated with disrespect, and he would have received a blow, perhaps, with more meekness. 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, G. G. and J. Robinson:
   • There was a muleteer to every donkey and a dozen volunteers beside, and they banged the donkeys with their goad-sticks, and pricked them with their spikes, and shouted something that sounded like "Sekki-yah!" and kept up a din and a racket that was worse than Bedlam itself. 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 58:

Forms

Deriveds

muleteering · muletress

Translations (25)

gl arrieiro (mule driver) · pt arrocheiro (mule driver) · es acemilero (mule driver) · fr transporteur (mule driver) · fr muletier (mule driver) · pl mulnik (mule driver) · fa مکاری (mule driver) · wa moultî (mule driver) · es arriero (mule driver) · gl arrocheiro (mule driver) · ar مُكَارٍ (mule driver) · ca traginer (mule driver) · pt almocreve (mule driver) · ca arrier (mule driver) · nl muildierdrijver (mule driver) · pt azemel (mule driver) · sv mulåsnedrivare (mule driver) · pt arreeiro (mule driver) · el μουλαράς (mule driver) · el αγωγιάτης (mule driver) · la mulio (mule driver) · es mulero (mule driver) · fr voiturier (mule driver) · pt muladeiro (mule driver) · hu öszvérhajcsár (mule driver)