dhooly
Americannoun
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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
In effect the doctor and the men with the dhooly came back just then.
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
“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
It was a last resource; and though the men grumbled, they lifted the dhooly, and I marched by the side.
From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by Overend, William Heysham
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