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dooly

[doo-lee] / ˈdu li /
NOUN
stretcher
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Moody issued an order, and a dozen soldiers under a corporal started to look for the dooly.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill

Dr Sir,—Yrs, into which you ask me to send you sum leadin incidents in my life so you can write my Bogfry for the papers, cum dooly to hand.

From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 7: Miscellaneous by Artemus Ward

Well, considering you was both so hungry, you ain't neither of you eaten dooly of this stoo as was fit for any king.

From Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

Daddy came to himself just as the men were lifting him into a dooly.

From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by William Forbes-Mitchell

He had got out of his dooly, undressed and bareheaded as he was, and leaped into the saddle, as the syce had been leading his horse near him.

From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by William Forbes-Mitchell

For the first time, doolies regularly visit faculty homes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The academy is not letting doolies off scot-free.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upperclassmen used to bait doolies all weekend; now doolies may close their doors if they want to be alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

As they picked their way down the line of duffel bags, foot lockers, skis, banjos, rifles and packs, the "doolies,"* i.e., plebes, had to halt before passing an upperclassman to ask "By your leave, sir."

From Time Magazine Archive

At sunset two doolies, escorted by men of the 5th Punjab Cavalry, were seen on the road coming towards us.

From A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 by Charles John Griffiths


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