The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cacolet \Ca`co*let"\, n. [F.] A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One of a pair of chairs or litters mounted on a pack animal (horse, mule, camel) 2 A single litter mounted on a pack animal.
Wikipedia
Cacolet may refer to:
- Camel cacolet, for field transport of wounded soldiers
- Mule cacolet, ditto
- Cacolet, journal of the Australian Camel Field Ambulance (see Australian Army Medical Units, World War I)
- Tricoche et Cacolet, a notable 19th Century French fictional detective team
- Caçolet, meaning cassoulet
Usage examples of "cacolet".
There was a Struggle, a screaming, a mule rolled over, a wounded man sprang up in a cacolet with a spear through him, and then through the narrow gap surged a stream of naked savages, mad with battle, drunk with slaughter, spotted and splashed with blood--blood dripping from their spears, their arms, their faces.
Each camel carried two cacolets, one clamped to each side of a specially constructed saddle.
Hussars and Lancers scouted in the scrub at each side, and within moved the clump of camels, with humorous eyes and supercilious lips, their comic faces a contrast to the blood-stained men who already lay huddled in the cacolets on either side.
Hussars and Lancers scouted in the scrub at each side, and within moved the clump of camels, with humorous eyes and supercilious lips, their comic faces a contrast to the blood-stained men who already lay huddled in the cacolets on either side.