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  • noun Plural form of muleteer.

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Examples

  • By day the Ostia Road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt -- and the carts brought nothing out but loads of dung.

    David Coates: Fiddling While Rome Burns David Coates 2010

  • By day the Ostia Road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt -- and the carts brought nothing out but loads of dung.

    David Coates: Fiddling While Rome Burns David Coates 2010

  • In the morning and even in the afternoon the maids and servants, the coachmen, the attendants, blacks, and mulattos all drink it; it is so common that even the muleteers, shoemakers, officials and all classes of people use it in the afternoon and in the morning. 81

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Grandfathers still remember the days when people hired arrieros (muleteers) with their mules or donkeys to carry their harvested corn, beans, or grains from the field to market.

    The Pre-hispanic, The Colonial, The Royal Roads Of Morelos And Puebla 2008

  • Grandfathers still remember the days when people hired arrieros (muleteers) with their mules or donkeys to carry their harvested corn, beans, or grains from the field to market.

    The Pre-hispanic, The Colonial, The Royal Roads Of Morelos And Puebla 2008

  • By day the Ostia Road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt -- and the carts brought nothing out but loads of dung.

    David Coates: Fiddling While Rome Burns David Coates 2010

  • Thousands of comerciantes, peddlers, artisans, day laborers, muleteers, and sailors from Spain and the interior of Mexico entered the mosquito-infested harbor with little or no immunity from the virus.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • They likely traveled on byroads along mountain ridges, on the timeless paths of muleteers seated with their baskets, on trails beaten through the woods by herds migrating to the mountains in summer and back to the plain before winter.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

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