muleteer
noun
- person who leads mule trains (for specific occupations see arriero and tropeiro)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌmjuːləˈtɪə(ɹ)/
noun
Etymology: From French muletier, from mulet (“mule”), with the spelling influenced by English mule + -eer.
- A mule driver.
“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.”
“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.”