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dooly-bearers

dooly-bearers is the plural of dooly-bearer.

Meaning of dooly-bearer

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

Questions about dooly-bearers

What is dooly-bearers the plural of?
Dooly-bearers is the plural of dooly-bearer.

Words near dooly-bearers in the dictionary

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

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