cascarillero
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From cáscara (“tree bark”) + -illa (“forming diminutives”) + -ero (“forming occupational nouns”).
Noun edit
cascarillero m (plural cascarilleros)
- (historical) a "barker": a person who strips needed or valuable bark from trees, as on a cinchona plantation
- Synonym: cascador
References edit
- Friedrich August Flückiger & al. (1879) Pharmacographia... (in Spanish), page 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.
Further reading edit
- “cascarillero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014