Crossword-Solution: HAMALS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For carrying such trifles as crates and hogsheads of crockery and glass-ware, and puncheons of rum, four hamals join strength at the ends of two stout poles.

One of these hamals, meandering along the street with six or seven hundred pounds of merchandise on his back, has the legal right - to say nothing of the evident moral right - to knock over any unloaded citizen who too tardily yields the way.

Uledi did more talking than work; while the runaway Ferajji and the useless-handed Mabruki Burton turned out to be true men and staunch, carrying loads the sight of which would have caused the strong-limbed hamals of Stamboul to sigh.

These at a later stage become _coolies_, going to market in the morning, fetching ice and soda-water, and so on, until they mature into _hamals_ and _mussals_ themselves.

Indeed, except among the Turkish hamals it is doubtful whether such powerful figures could be found elsewhere.