‖ arriero
(ariˈero)
[Sp.]
A muleteer.
| 1826 Head Rough Notes Pampas 165 A mulish-looking sort of man who used to terrify all the arrieros and peons who passed. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 14 The most valuable part of our luggage had been forwarded by the arrieros. 1845 [see muleteer]. 1923 Blackw. Mag. Sept. 339/2 We were probably reckoned as rather less than the arriero who owned two lean donkeys. |