Word Meanings - CARAVANEER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.

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• CARAVANSARY
  A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being (more info) Per. karwansara'8b; karwan caravan + -sara'8b palace, large house,
• CARAVAN
  1. A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa. 2. A large, covered
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• CAMELSHAIR
  Of camel's hair. Camel's-hair pencil, a small brush used by painters in water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials. -- Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a cashmere shawl. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere.
• CARAVANEER
  The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.
• LEADERSHIP
  The office of a leader.
• LEADER
  A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached. A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. 2. The first, or the principal,
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• PLEADER
  One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
• FAIR-LEADER
  A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• REPLEADER
  A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.
• INTERPLEADER
  A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they
• MISLEADER
  One who leads into error.
• FORELEADER
  One who leads others by his example; aguide.
• IMPLEADER
  One who prosecutes or sues another.
• STAKE-DRIVER
  The common American bittern ; -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.