carretero

adj.

road, of the road.

m.

cart driver, truckman, carman, cartman.

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carretero

► nombre masculino

1 (conductor) carter, cart driver

2 (constructor) cartwright

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FRASEOLOGÍA

fumar como un carretero familiar to smoke like a chimney

hablar como un carretero / jurar como un carretero familiar to swear like a trooper

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1.

ADJ

camino carretero — vehicular road

2. SM

1) (=transportista) cartwright, wheelwright

- fumar como un carretero

- jurar como un carretero

2) LAm road

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-ra masculino, femenino cart driver

fumar como un carretero — (fam) to smoke like a chimney

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-ra masculino, femenino cart driver

fumar como un carretero — (fam) to smoke like a chimney

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carretero¹

¹ = cartwright, waggonwright [wagonwright, -USA], wainwright.

Nota: Fabricante de carretas.

Ex: Elm is especially in demand by cartwrights and coachbuilders.

Ex: And then in April of the same year strikes broke out among waggonwrights and bricklayers in Liverpool.

Ex: 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

² = cart driver, drayman, waggoner [wagoner, -USA].

Nota: Persona que conduce una carreta.

Ex: The cart drivers would sometimes load three to four tonnes of goods for two bullocks to pull.

Ex: 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.

Ex: We know that the majority of the village cottages inhabited by waggoners, husbandmen and the poorer yeoman would have had just two rooms.

* fumar como un carretero = smoke like + a chimney.

* jurar como un carretero = swear like + a trooper.

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carretero¹ -ra

adjective

(Chi fam):

es muy carretero he's a real party animal, he's really into the action (colloq)

carretero² -ra

masculine, feminine

A (conductor) cart driver

fumar como un carretero (fam); to smoke like a chimney

B (Chi fam) (discotequero) clubber

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carretero, -a

♦ adj

Am road;

un accidente carretero a road accident;

tráfico carretero road traffic

♦ nm,f

wheelwright;

fumar como un carretero to smoke like a chimney;

jurar como un carretero to swear like a trooper

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carretero

I m

:

fumar como un carretero fig fam smoke like a chimney fam ;

jurar o

blasfemar como un carretero swear like a trooper

II adj road atr ; road-traffic atr

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carretero, -ra adj

: highway

el sistema carretero nacional: the national highway system