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dooly

[doo-lee] / ˈdu li /
NOUN
stretcher
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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

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

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

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

We hev bin dooly subjoogated some time, and a waitin for this.

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

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

For the first time, doolies regularly visit faculty homes.

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

The academy is not letting doolies off scot-free.

From Time Magazine Archive

So we got into the doolies and swung away.

From Mr. Isaacs by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford


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