Noun: muleteer
| Singular | muleteer |
| Plural | muleteers |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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A guy is sitting on the lead mule. He's the muleteer, .... [1982, Don DeLillo, The Names, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 339:]
Nouns inflected like muleteer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French muletier, from mulet (“mule”), with the spelling influenced by English mule + -eer. See: French Nouns '
muletier', English Nouns '
mule'.