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‖ doolie, dooly|ˈduːlɪ|
Forms: 7 dowle, doola, 8–9 dooly, -ley, 9 doolee, dúlí, erron. dhooly.
[a. Hindī ḍōlī a litter, a kind of sedan for women, etc., dim. of ḍōlā swing, cradle, litter, f. Skr. dōlā litter, swinging cradle, f. dul- to swing.]
A rudimentary litter or palanquin used by the lower classes in India, and as an army ambulance.
c1625Hawkins in Purchas Pilgrims I. 435 (Y.) He sends choice Souldiers..close couered, two and two in a Dowle. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 66 The Doolaes were no sooner dismounted, but that thereout issued the Amazones. 1782–3W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 264 Doolies..are only used by the very lower sorts of people, in cases of sickness or accident. 1804A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. III. 114, I could not walk..So they put us into dooleys, or cradles, fastened together with ropes. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 399 Order men who cannot march to be carried in waggons, dhoolies, &c.
2. attrib., as doolie-bearer.
1862Beveridge Hist. India III. ix. v. 655 The dhoolie-bearers followed the example. 1883F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs xii. 253 A strong body of dooly-bearers. |