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dooly-bearer

dooly-bearer noun: a person employed as a carrier of a dooly.

Noun

dooly-bearer (plural dooly-bearers)

  1. 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

Forms of dooly-bearer

pluraldooly-bearers

Questions about dooly-bearer

What does dooly-bearer mean?
Dooly-bearer means a person employed as a carrier of a dooly.
What part of speech is dooly-bearer?
Dooly-bearer is a noun.
What is the plural of dooly-bearer?
The plural of dooly-bearer is dooly-bearers.

Words near dooly-bearer in the dictionary

  1. Doolings
  2. Doolins
  3. Doolittle
  4. dooly
  5. Dooly County
  6. dooly-bearer
  7. dooly-bearers
  8. doom
  9. doom and gloom
  10. Doom clone
  11. Doom clones

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