kurveyor, noun

Forms:
karveyer, karweyerShow more Also karveyer, karweyer, kurweyer.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Englished form of Afrikaans karweier transport rider, from karwei (see kurvey).
obs.
transport-rider.
1871 ‘R.M.R.’ in Cape Monthly Mag. III. Dec. 372The foundations of some of the largest fortunes in the East were laid by kurweyers.
1871 W.G. Atherstone in A.M.L. Robinson Sel. Articles from Cape Monthly Mag. (1978) 78Strangers and visitors can’t repress an audible hope..that some ‘kurweyer’ of taste will run his wool-wagon against it by accident.
1885 W. Greswell in Macmillan’s Mag. (U.K.) Feb. 285The kurveyor or carrier who drags the trade of the country about in his ponderous ox waggon with spans of 16 to 20 oxen.
1886 Grocott’s Penny Mail 29 Nov.All the karweyers came out as we passed the crowd of wagons, and assured us that it was impossible to go up.
1894 E. Glanville Fair Colonist 318Jimmie wants to be a karveyer; but she says, rather than see him a driver of oxen, she would apprentice him to a tailor.
1896 Blackwood’s Mag. (U.K.) May 645It was a very paying thing for the individual ‘transport-rider’ or ‘Kurveyor’ to convey goods to and from Kimberley.
1896 M.A. Carey-Hobson At Home in Tvl 27A fine, independent young fellow was Robert Walters, the transport rider, or karweyer as they are called in South Africa.
1912 E. London Dispatch 2 July 8 (Pettman)It is anticipated that in six months’ time the long-talked-of bridge will be un fait accompli...Shades of old Kurveyors, what wouldn’t you have given for that bridge.
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