Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word camel-drivers.
Examples
-
They do hear the coming of the imperialist war planes, they smell the decomposition of the fragments of their bombed fathers and mothers, these 'camel-drivers' feel the burning of the white phosphorous bombs, the pain of the eating away of their meager flesh, of their innocent existence.
Venezuela: Beware, Big Business enters the Orinoco Delta and with it a coming Big War! 2009
-
Babylon, of the satraps, and the magi, resorted, out of pure devotion, to sleep for money in the aisles of the temple of Babylon with all the camel-drivers and muleteers of Asia.
-
Celibidache mocked "camel-drivers," who seem to be roughly equivalent to Wagner's loathed four-square conductors.
Celibidache's Wagner Patrick J. Smith 2006
-
Celibidache mocked "camel-drivers," who seem to be roughly equivalent to Wagner's loathed four-square conductors.
Archive 2006-08-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006
-
The times for conjugal duty prescribed in the Torah are: for men of independence, every day; for labourers, twice a week; for ass-drivers, once a week; for camel-drivers, once in thirty days; for sailors, once in six months.
-
The other ladies, who had just learnt the use of their feet, followed her, their guards galloped after, and the camel-drivers brought up the rear as fast as their charge would permit.
-
The camel-drivers of the supply column, driven forward only by
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
-
This was the naval force which came from Asia, amounting in all to fifty-one myriads and also seven thousand six hundred and ten in addition. 1166 Then of the footmen there had been found to be a hundred and seventy myriads,1167 and of the horsemen eight myriads: 1168 and I will add also to these the Arabian camel-drivers and the Libyan drivers of chariots, assuming them to amount to twenty thousand men.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
-
A number of camel-drivers from Syria and Egypt led their unloaded camels through the streets, offering to let them out to the hadjys going to Arafat.
Travels in Arabia 2003
-
As before, the Arabs were now merely camel-drivers, walking behind laden pack-animals.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.