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Dooly   Listen
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Dooly  n.  (pl. doolies)  (Written also doolee and doolie)  A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. (East Indies) "Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent."






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"Dooly" Quotes from Famous Books



... as history lives, so long does it suffice to know that "here lie the mortal remains of Henry Havelock"—and the text and verse of poetry grate on one as redundancies. He sickened two days before the evacuation of the Residency and died on the morning of the 24th of November in his dooly in a tent of the camp at the Dilkoosha. The life went out of him just as the march began, and his soldiers conveyed with them, on the litter on which he had expired, the mortal remains of the chief who had so often led them ...
— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes



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