(a) A vehicle in use down to recent times, containing a couch shut in by curtains, and carried on men's shoulders or by beasts of burden. (b) A…

A litter.

A litter. Obsolete.

A covered conveyance, usually for one person, consisting of a large box carried on two horizontal poles by four or six (rarely two) bearers, used…

In Japan: an elaborately decorated sedan chair; a palanquin.

A rudimentary litter or palanquin used in India by the lower social classes, and as an army ambulance.

transferred. A litter, palanquin, or the like.

A canopied litter or sedan chair. Obsolete.

In South and Central Asia: a covered litter carried by mules or camels, esp. (in early use) one used by a monarch or other high-ranking person.

A human-powered conveyance for transporting a passenger or passengers, as a litter, palanquin, rickshaw, etc.; (in later use esp.) a two-wheeled cart…

Chiefly in South Asia: a palanquin.

In Italian contexts: a sedan chair (see also quot. 1793).

A kind of litter resembling a hammock, used on the south-western coast of India.

A conveyance, usually for one person, used in Africa and consisting of a hammock slung between two poles, carried by bearers.

A Japanese palanquin of basketwork slung on a pole and carried on the shoulders of bearers.

‘A kind of vehicle used in the Himalaya, consisting of a strong cloth slung like a hammock to a bamboo staff, and carried by two (or more) men [da…