Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mule-train or pack-train: generally used in Spanish America, also, for any loaded train or drove of animals. It was used by the early Spanish chroniclers, to designate the trains of indigenous dogs used by the prairie Indians of North America.
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Examples
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Como por milagre, o mar recua, levantando um véu sobre intricados recantos e paisagens invisíveis.
Maré Artur 2007
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I really think a recua of loaded mules among the Andes is worse.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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Now and then we met or passed a long recua (train) of loaded mules, taking care to keep the safe side of the road till we were rid of them.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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Or the men might keep themselves employed in capturing victual frigates for the stocking of the ship before they attacked another recua.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Spanish soldiers, so that he might not hope to win such a golden booty as Drake had won, by holding up a recua on the march.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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The boles were fastened together with thongs stolen from the recua, and with the pliant bejuca growing all about them.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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We do not know the amount of Drake's plunder, but with the spoil of all these frigates, added to the loot of the recua, it must have been very considerable.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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There was just time for Colonel Miranda to select the most cherished of his _penates_; pack them on a _recua_ of mules, then mount, and make away.
The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850
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The only patrimony of the future heir of the Mexican independence was a small _recua_ of pack-mules, left him by his father, who was a muleteer.
The Tiger Hunter Mayne Reid 1850
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The voices of the muleteers, who were busily lading the _recua_ of Don
The Tiger Hunter Mayne Reid 1850
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