dooly
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Moody issued an order, and a dozen soldiers under a corporal started to look for the dooly.
From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill
It ain't desirable, Jack—size o' trap dooly considered.
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
Show ’em a good scarecrow or tatty dooly, as the Scotch folk call it, and they’d think it was what they call a bunyip.”
From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by J. B. Greene
And this epistle wuz dooly signed, his John × Morrissey, M.C. mark.
From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast
"Justice of the peace," he said proudly, "dooly signed and registered in Dartmouth County, Mass."
From The Cruise of the Kawa by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell
The academy is not letting doolies off scot-free.
From Time Magazine Archive
As they picked their way down the line of duffel bags, foot lockers, skis, banjos, rifles and packs, the "doolies,"* i.e., plebes, had to halt before passing an upperclassman to ask "By your leave, sir."
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first time, doolies regularly visit faculty homes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upperclassmen used to bait doolies all weekend; now doolies may close their doors if they want to be alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
A group of officers remained under the shade of a tree near until the surgeon who had ridden in with the doolies came out.
From The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
