chaupala

plural chaupalas

1. alternativeAlternative form of chowpaul.

   The third kind [of palanquin] is called Chaupala, that is four square, and is a kind of square box open at the sides.

   1838, Robert Montgomery Martin, The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India, volume III, page 119

   2 more examples

   ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.

   1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi

   ... there were others of a more ordinary type like the chaupala, muhafah, miyanah; some were simple hammocks suspended from a pole, called doli...

   1995 March, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 46

alternative Chaupaul

1. Former name of Moradabad: a city in Uttar Pradesh, India.