What is "caporal"

Usage examples of "caporal".

Rawlins looked at the caporal of the vaqueros but the caporal put his horse forward and rode up the line.

When they were done the caporal and another vaquero took them over and introduced them namelessly and the five of them rode together back down to the gerente's house and there in the kitchen at a metal table under a bare lightbulb the gerente questioned them closely as to their understanding of ranch work while the caporal seconded their every claim and the vaquero nodded and said that it was so and the caporal volunteered testimony on his own concerning the qualifications of the güeros of which they themselves were not even aware, dismissing doubt with a sweep of his hand as if to say that these were things known to everyone.

They unsaddled the horses and turned them into the trap and followed the caporal up to the bunkhouse.

The caporal had sent a mozo with them to cook and see to the horses and he'd sent three young vaqueros not much older than they.

Next door was the candy and stationery shop owned by two daffy old maids who were religious: here there was the almost sickeningly sweet smell of taffy, of Spanish peanuts, of jujubes and Sen-Sen and of Sweet Caporal cigarettes.

For most of us it smelled of sugar, of Cuban plantations, of the strange Cuban flag which had a star in the comer and which was always highly regarded by those who saved the little cards which were given away with Sweet Caporal cigarettes and on which there were represented either the flags of the different nations or the leading soubrettes of the stage or the famous pugilists.

She saw him go into the candy store and buy four Sweet Caporal cigarettes with the two cents after mass.