cascador

Borrowed from French cascadeur.

• IPA^(key): /kas.kaˈdor/

cascador m (plural cascadori)

1. stunt actor

From cásca(ra) (“tree bark”) +‎ -dor (noun-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): /kaskaˈdoɾ/ [kas.kaˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: cas‧ca‧dor

cascador m (plural cascadores)

1. (historical) a "barker": a person who strips needed or valuable bark from trees, as on a cinchona plantation

   Synonym: cascarillero

• Friedrich August Flückiger & al. (1879) Pharmacographia... (in Spanish), page 346
• : The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the collectors themselves, are called Cascarilleros or , from the Spanish word Cascara, bark.