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单词 doolie
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doolien.

/ˈduːli/
Forms: 1600s dowle, doola, 1700s–1800s dooly, dooley, 1800s doolee, dúlí, erron. dhooly.
Etymology: < Hindi ḍōlī a litter, a kind of sedan for women, etc., diminutive of ḍōlā swing, cradle, litter, < Sanskrit dōlā litter, swinging cradle, < dul- to swing.
1. A rudimentary litter or palanquin used in India by the lower social classes, and as an army ambulance.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter
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c1625 Hawkins in Purchas Pilgrims I. 435 He sends choice Souldiers..close couered, two and two in a Dowle.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 66 The Doolaes were no sooner dismounted, but that thereout issued the Amazones.
1782–3 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 264 Doolies..are only used by the very lower sorts of people, in cases of sickness or accident.
1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. III. 114 I could not walk..So they put us into dooleys, or cradles, fastened together with ropes.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 399 Order men who cannot march to be carried in waggons, dhoolies, &c.
2. attributive, as doolie-bearer.
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1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India III. ix. v. 655 The dhoolie-bearers followed the example.
1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs xii. 253 A strong body of dooly-bearers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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