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cargodor†
[< Am. E < Sp.]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:cargador, cargodore
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the foreman of a pack-train.
See: pack-train
Quotations
1912
Pete only cut from the plug into his palm, and rolled the tobacco small for his corn-cob pipe. His winter servitude was ended, and he was master, the cargador before whom all men bow in the dread northlands.
1923
Every year from May to August he acts as cargodor on a packtrain, which means that he is the head man on the train.
1958
The "cargodore" is Chinese, two of the packers are Tahitan natives and the cook . . . is Chinese.