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Dooly   Listen
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Dooly  n.  (pl. doolies)  (Written also doolee and doolie)  A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. (East Indies) "Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent."






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"Dooly" Quotes from Famous Books



... 6th reseved, and contense, including for my pussenel expenses, dooly noted, Washinton Hall has been moped out for you and is clene as a pin, six new tin cannel sticks have been put up in the antyrum by the propryetor, this is lyberul, all the hanbils has been distributid, and the posters stuck up, sum of em wrong side down, ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton

... no more effect on him than tea would on you and me. You try another idea, sir. What do you say to frightening them black fellows overboard? They're a rum lot; just like a pack o' children. Frightened o' bogies. Show 'em a good scarecrow or tatty dooly, as the Scotch folk call it, and they'd think it was ...
— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn

... sent into the region in the neighborhood of Augusta to compel the inhabitants to take the oath of allegiance to the King. One of these parties entered the house of Colonel John Dooly, a gallant officer, and murdered him in cold blood in the presence of his wife and children. Colonel Dooly was the father of Judge Dooly, who became famous ...
— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris



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