cascarillero

Spanish

Etymology

From cáscara (“tree bark”) + -illa (“forming diminutives”) + -ero (“forming occupational nouns”).

Noun

cascarillero m (plural cascarilleros)

1. (historical) a "barker": a person who strips needed or valuable bark from trees, as on a cinchona plantation

   Synonym: cascador

References

• 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

• “cascarillero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28