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单词 kartel
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karteln.

/ˈkɑːt(ə)l/
Forms: Also cartel, cartle.
Etymology: South African Dutch; apparently < Portuguese catel, catle, catre ‘little bed’, according to Schuchardt ( Kreol. Stud. IX. 119), a South Indian word, Tamil kattil bedstead, adopted and diffused by the Portuguese.
The wooden bed or hammock, in a South African ox-wagon.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > hammock in an ox wagon
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1880 P. Gillmore On Duty 275 The worthy missionary had his waggon brought in front of the porch, swung a cartle in it, and made my bed there.
1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm (1887) ii. xii. 276 Next day Gregory carried her..to the waggon... As he laid her down on the ‘kartel’ she looked far out across the plain.
1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines (1887) iii. 42 In this after part was a hide ‘cartle’ or bed.
1910 J. Buchan Prester John viii. 151 I..flung my kaross on the cartel which did duty as a bed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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