Dooly

Quick meaning: Dooly is a noun meaning (India, now chiefly historical) A basic Indian litter or sedan chair made of poles, ropes, and a seat or cloth.

Meaning

(India, now chiefly historical) A basic Indian litter or sedan chair made of poles, ropes, and a seat or cloth.

More Meanings

1. (India, archaic) Synonym of stretcher, a basic litter used for transport of the ill and injured.
2. (India, obsolete) Synonym of litter of whatever type.

Example Sentences

“Not going out this journey,” gasped Bobby, as he was lifted from the doolie. “Not going out this journey.”

The dhulí is a slight bamboo framework covered with coarse cloth, about two and a half feet square, with a bedding made of string woven across, on which the passenger sits. It is slung on a stout bamboo pole, and carried by two or four men.

He also, in conjunction with Private John Ryan, rushed into the street under a heavy fire, and took Captain Arnold, 1st Madras Fusiliers, out of a dooly, and brought him into the house, that officer being again hit while they were so doing.

He said I should not be able to ride much farther, as the pass beyond Sultanpoor was utterly impracticable for horses; coolies, however, awaited me with a dooly, one of those low litters slung on a bamboo, in which you may travel swiftly and without effort, but to the destruction of the digestive organs.

Word Forms

• doolies
• doolae
• doolee
• dooley
• doolie

Synonyms for dooly

Depending on context, synonyms include stretcher.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bearers, doolie, doolee, dooley, dhooley, dhooly.

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