Definition of Huaquero

1. a Latin American tomb robber [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Huaquero

hsp70
hsp90
hst
hstead
ht
ht29 cell
huamachil
huanaco
huanacoes
huanacos
huanghuali
huangite
huanglongbing
huapango
huapangos
huaquero
huaqueros
huarache
huaraches
huaracho
huarachos
hub
hub-and-spoke
hub-and-spoke system
hub-bub
hub cap
hub world
hub worlds
hubbard squash

Literary usage of Huaquero

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Enchanted Burro: Stories of New Mexico and South America by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1897)
"Huaquero is the Spanish derivative to mean a digger of these antiquities — in ... A competent huaquero commands as good wages as a skilled laborer in the ..."

2. La Cruz en America: (arquelogía Argentina) by Adán Quiroga (1901)
"6, es un huaquero antropomorfo de vientre abultado, con su cuello arqueado, rematando en ... Igualmente es un huaquero casi circular el bellísimo objeto 17, ..."

3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Mines (1920)
"An argentiferous variety of halite, 20 NaCl+AgCl, occurring in cubic crystals and as an incrustation. (Dana) Huaquero (Peru). An earthenware pitcher found ..."

4. The Gold Fish of Gran Chimú by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1895)
"said the American, heartily. " For the father of you, and for the son of your father, I would do a little. Sanchez!" — and he called up a huaquero from one ..."

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