Also camelier. [An analogical repr. of L. camēlārius: see -EER.] A camel-driver; a cuirassier mounted on a camel.
1808. A. Parsons, Trav., Afr. iv. 76. The cameliers (men who attend, feed, load, and unload the camels).
1837. De Quincey, Revolt of Tartars (1862), IV. 148. A body of trained cameleers, that is cuirassiers mounted on camels.
1883. Col. Warren, in W. Besant, Life Palmer, xi. 309. Six of these cameleers were of the Aligât tribe.
