Word.ws English Dictionary

munsheel

munsheel is the alternative form of mancheel.

Meaning of mancheel

Noun

mancheel (plural mancheels)

  1. (India, historical) A covered hammock litter developed in southwest India.
    • A Muncheel is a kind of litter, resembling a sea-cot, or hammock, hung to a long pole, with a moveable covering over the whole, to keep off the sun or rain. Six men will run with one from one end of the Malabar coast to the other, while twelve are necessary for the lightest palanquin.1830, James Welsh, Military Reminiscences, volume II, page 142

Forms of munsheel

pluralmunsheels

Questions about munsheel

What is munsheel the alternative form of?
Munsheel is the alternative form of mancheel.

Words near munsheel in the dictionary

  1. Munsells
  2. Munses
  3. Munsey
  4. Munseys
  5. munshee
  6. munsheel
  7. munsheels
  8. munshees
  9. munshi
  10. Munshi Puliya
  11. Munshiganj District

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: munsheel (page history and authors); mancheel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “munsheel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/munsheel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.