cacolet
See also: caçolet
English
Etymology
From French cacolet, from Béarnais Occitan cacoulet (“mule chair”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kakolɛ/, /kakolɛt/
Noun
cacolet (plural cacolets)
- An open chair mounted to one side of a pack animal, balanced by another on the other side.
- (medicine, especially historical and military) A stretcher mounted on a pack animal similarly or singly. [1878]
Hyponyms
- mule chair (mule-borne chairs); kajawah (camel-borne)
Translations
A twinned chair mounted on a pack animal
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References
- “cacolet, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- Katherine T. Barkley (1990) The Ambulance Exposition Press, →ISBN, 207 pages.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Occitan (Béarnais) cacoulet, of uncertain origin.
Noun
cacolet m (plural cacolets)
Further reading
- “cacolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.