dooly
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He sickened two days before the evacuation of the Residency and died on the morning of the 24th of November in his dooly in a tent of the camp at the Dilkoosha.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes
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
And this epistle wuz dooly signed, his John × Morrissey, M.C. mark.
From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast
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
Sergeant Paton, of my company, picked him up, and put him into an empty dooly which was passing.
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
The academy is not letting doolies off scot-free.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Upperclassmen used to bait doolies all weekend; now doolies may close their doors if they want to be alone.
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For the first time, doolies regularly visit faculty homes.
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I rode out to meet the battalion on its way into Kohat, and was horrified to see the long line of doolies and ambulance-carts by which it was accompanied.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts