palkee
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[edit]Noun
[edit]palkee (plural palkees)
- Archaic form of palki (“a palanquin”).
- 1859, John Williamson Palmer, Up and Down the Irrawaddi:
- These palkees, which, to an inexperienced person, offer, even when empty, a hopeless weight, are conveyed by them, with a heavy passenger within, at the rate of twenty or thirty miles a day
References
[edit]- “palkee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.