munchil

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A form of mancheel — A covered hammock litter developed in southwest India.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounmunchil (plural munchils)

plural munchils

  1. alternativeAlternative form of mancheel.
    1 more example

    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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