howdah

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Elmer is a sort of Howdah Doody, but he is also only a bag of cloth until somebody gets inside to manipulate him into action.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would also occasionally break off branches of trees that were in the way of the Howdah, to enable me to pass.

From The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. by Anonymous

Howdah, Houdah, how′da, n. a seat fixed on an elephant's back.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various