hammock-litter

A form of hammock litter — A form of litter consisting of a wide cloth suspended at each end from a pole carried by porters and used as a mode of transport.

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nounhammock-litter (plural hammock-litters)

plural hammock-litters

  1. alternativeAlternative form of hammock litter.
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    The muncheel or manjeel..., also written munsheel and munchil, from the Malayālam manjīl, manjāl, mañchīl, mañchāl and Sanskrit maṇcha, is the name given to a kind of hammock-litter used on the south-west coast of India... It is shaded by a cover, which in some cases is held up by a frame of bent canes.

    2002, Norman Mosley Penzer, Poison Damsels, page 231
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