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 Churchill, Winston

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 Greene, J. B.

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 Nast, Thomas

It ain't desirable, Jack—size o' trap dooly considered.

From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George

Sergeant Paton, of my company, picked him up, and put him into an empty dooly which was passing.

From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by Forbes-Mitchell, William