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Definition of Charpoys
1. charpoy [n] - See also: charpoy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charpoys
Literary usage of Charpoys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"These charpoys are fixed about ten feet from the ground, so as to be just out of
the reach of a tiger were he to stand on his hind legs and try to get in. ..."
2. My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9 by Sir William Howard Russell (1860)
"The sobs of the poor woman, the wife of one of the men, who sat by the charpoys,
were most affecting; but not a soul went to comfort or say a kind word to ..."
3. The Land of the Veda: Being Personal Reminiscences of India; Its People by William Butler (1873)
"The ladies had safely and duly arrived, and were stretched, some on the ground
and others on charpoys, and thus the night wore over ..."
4. Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-wheel Among the Temples by William Hunter Workman, Fanny Bullock Workman (1904)
"The bungalows are generally, though not always, provided with bedsteads or charpoys
consisting of a wooden frame held together by an interlacing of broad ..."
5. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1824)
"We dismounted, and entered the verandah where this mighty brahmin had been
sleeping, and seeing that there were three or four charpoys to spare, ..."
6. Cavalry Studies: Strategical and Tactical by Douglas Haig (1907)
"... filled with air lashed under ordinary charpoys or any suitable wooden frame,
such as tent-poles lashed together. Two to three men to each charpoy. ..."
7. Narrative of a Residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad: With Wild Sports by Edward Archer Langley (1860)
"... but the news of our advent fast flying through the town, we soon were supplied
with fire, and food, and charpoys to He on, but no preparation whatever ..."
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