Carretero in english
Carter
pronunciation: kɑrtɜr part of speech: noun
pronunciation: kɑrtɜr part of speech: noun
In gestures
carretero1 = cartwright ; waggonwright [wagonwright, -USA] ; wainwright.
Example: Elm is especially in demand by cartwrights and coachbuilders.Example: And then in April of the same year strikes broke out among waggonwrights and bricklayers in Liverpool.Example: Large quantities of oak was also used by wheelwrights as spokes for wheels and by wainwrights in the frames for cart and coach bodies.carretero2 = cart driver ; drayman ; waggoner [wagoner, -USA] ; carter.
Example: The cart drivers would sometimes load three to four tonnes of goods for two bullocks to pull.Example: I've since learned that the hat is from around the 1920's and would probably have been worn by a drayman delivering beer from a wagon.Example: We know that the majority of the village cottages inhabited by waggoners, husbandmen and the poorer yeoman would have had just two rooms.Example: The old carters' smock frock, still lingering, but on its way to becoming extinct, is centuries old.more:
» con boca de carretero = foul-mouthed .
Example: He was foul-mouthed and foul-tempered, a vicious player whose most common word was 'cocksucker,' usually directed at the referees.» fumar como un carretero = smoke like + a chimney ; chain smoke .
Example: She is just an example of the young tinsel town actresses that smoke like a chimney. Example: After that, I have had suicidal thoughts recurrently and have been chain smoking and crying and not eating.» jurar como un carretero = swear like + a trooper .
Example: I'm pretty sure I should have been born a boy -- I swear like a trooper, I eat like an animal, I burp shamelessly and I constantly make rude remarks.