Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who drives or rides a camel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A camel-driver.
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- noun
Camel driver orrider , one who travels by camel.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And an approaching object that made me think of a hundred movies in which something comes across the wavy plain, a horseman with scabbarded rifle or a lone cameleer hunched in muslin on his dumbheaded beast.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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So he asked the watchman what had happened and he told him what has passed in the night and what had been said to the cameleer, whereupon the merchant bade him fetch the man and asked him, “Whither didst thou carry the stuffs this morning?”
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“Fetch me the cameleer who carried the goods,” said the merchant; so he fetched him and the merchant said to him, “Whither didst thou carry the bales of goods from the ship?”
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And an approaching object that made me think of a hundred movies in which something comes across the wavy plain, a horseman with scabbarded rifle or a lone cameleer hunched in muslin on his dumbheaded beast.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The thief had laid his cloak over them; so the merchant took the cloak as well as the bales and delivered them to the camel-driver, who laid them on his camel; after which he locked the magazine and went away with the cameleer.
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The cameleer urged on his beasts with them, what while I found
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Next day the villagers brought a camel and said to the cameleer, “Set this sick man on thy beast and carry him to Baghdad and put him down at the Spital door; so haply he may be medicined and be healed and thou shalt have thy hire.”
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So the man fetched him a camel, and the thief took four bales157 of stuffs and gave them to the cameleer, who loaded them on his beast.
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And an approaching object that made me think of a hundred movies in which something comes across the wavy plain, a horseman with scabbarded rifle or a lone cameleer hunched in muslin on his dumbheaded beast.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The cry of the donkey-boy, and the cry of the cameleer, and the cry of the muezzin from the mosque.
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
bilby commented on the word cameleer
Humpy equivalent of cavalier.
September 12, 2008