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dooly

[doo-lee] / ˈdu li /
NOUN
stretcher
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Show ’em a good scarecrow or tatty dooly, as the Scotch folk call it, and they’d think it was what they call a bunyip.”

From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.

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 Forbes-Mitchell, William

A prayer prayed proper, and prayed by them as ain't plaguein' the Lord constant about their souls an' other diseases, is always dooly regarded.

From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Farnol, Jeffery

It ain't desirable, Jack—size o' trap dooly considered.

From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George

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 Forbes-Mitchell, William




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