dhooly

American  

[doo-lee] / ˈdu li /

noun

dhoolies plural

1. a variant of dooly.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dhoolies
  plural

Example Sentences

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dhooly dhoolies

We have no dhooly, my lad, to carry you, so we must wait till you can walk, for we must hold together now to the last.

From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by Overend, William Heysham

“Then you will lend us a dhooly for this man, and people to carry him?”

From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by Overend, William Heysham

Watch him, doctor, and he must take to the dhooly again if he cannot bear it.

From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by Overend, William Heysham

I will get the men and the dhooly at once.”

From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by Overend, William Heysham

The utter confusion which followed is shown by Lord Robert’s statement in his Memoirs that he found Nicholson lying in a dhooly near the Cashmere Gate, the native carriers having fled.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

Behind the cover of the rocks the dhoolies were waiting with their green-covered stretchers.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.

Next day dhoolies or litters are sent for the guests, or if the hostess is poor she sends women to escort them to the house before daybreak.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

Under the Red Cross flag the dhoolies then began to go out to pick up the results of the battle.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.

Summoned by telephone, the dhoolies came quickly up and bore them away, together with the remains of the dead.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.

The dhoolies quickly came and bore the wounded away to the Wesleyan Chapel.

From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.