cacolet

See also: caçolet

English

19th-century Basque cacolets (mule chairs)

Camel-borne cacolets (kajawahs) in WWI

Etymology

From French cacolet, from Béarnais Occitan cacoulet (“mule chair”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kakolɛ/, /kakolɛt/

Noun

cacolet (plural cacolets)

1. An open chair mounted to one side of a pack animal, balanced by another on the other side.
2. (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

• Spanish: artolas f pl

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} شُقْذُف m (šuqḏuf)

  Egyptian Arabic: شبرية f (shabríya), شقدف m (sháqdaf)

• German: ^{(please verify)} Tragsessel (de) m

References

• “cacolet, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Katherine T. Barkley (1990) The Ambulance Exposition Press, →ISBN, 207 pages.

Anagrams

• Calcote

French

Etymology

From Occitan (Béarnais) cacoulet, of uncertain origin.

Noun

cacolet m (plural cacolets)

1. cacolet

Further reading

• “cacolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.