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Definition of Cameleer
1. a camel driver [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cameleer
Literary usage of Cameleer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments: Now by Kama̜ Shastra society, Benares, Richard Francis Burton (1885)
"So he asked the watchman what had happened and he told him what had passed in
the night and what had been said to the cameleer, whereupon the merchant bade ..."
2. The Technique of the Mystery Story by Carolyn Wells (1913)
"So the four hied forth, the three princes and the cameleer, and ceased ...
Thereupon the cameleer exclaimed, “0 my lord, I heard yonder one say that the ..."
3. The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations by Julian Hawthorne (1909)
"Thereupon the cameleer exclaimed, " O my lord, I heard yonder one say that ...
Hearing this the Sultan said to the cameleer, " O man, fare thee forth and ..."
4. Islam & World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (2004)
"He journeyed from Damascus to Jerusalem with only one camel and a cameleer.
The caliph, being a man of great humility, had arranged with the ..."
5. Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World by Raphael Pumpelly (1870)
"A cameleer in charge of the carts had fallen asleep in the saddle, and the animals,
taking advantage of this, had strayed on to uneven ground, ..."
6. Travels and Adventures of Raphael Pumpelly: Mining Engineer, Geologist by Raphael Pumpelly (1920)
"A cameleer in charge of the carts had fallen asleep in the saddle, and the animals,
taking advantage of this, had strayed on to uneven ground, ..."
7. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia by Sir Austen Henry Layard (1853)
"The cameleer was at a loss to guess how the old man knew of the stone, but he
did as he had been asked, and in the place described to him he found the white ..."
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