Meanings
noundooly-bearer (plural dooly-bearers)
plural dooly-bearers
- A person employed as a carrier of a dooly.
There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153
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