cascador

Spanish

Etymology

From cáscara (“tree bark”) + -dor (“forming agent nouns”)

Noun

cascador m (plural cascadores)

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

Synonyms

• cascarillero

References

• 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger & al., Pharmacographia..., p. 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 Cascadores, from the Spanish word Cascara, bark.