The story
- Occitan · derived fromcacoulet“mule chair”
- French · borrowed fromcacolet
- English todaycacolet
From French cacolet, from Béarnais Occitan cacoulet (“mule chair”).
First known use, by meaning
- 1878 A stretcher mounted on a pack animal similarly or singly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.