Crossword clues for doolie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dooly \Doo"ly\, n.; pl. Doolies. [Skr. d[=o]la.] A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also doolee and doolie.] [East Indies]
Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung
on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and
boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent.
--J. D.
Hooker.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A first year student at the United States Air Force Academy; a cadet freshman
Usage examples of "doolie".
Underneath the trees a few yards away from the little station we found a bullock-cart, which the Russels had sent for my luggage, and a doolie for myself.
Suddenly the groaning ceased, and I found myself and the doolie planted on the ground.
We left Takai on Wednesday, I in my old friend the doolie, Boggley on his bicycle.
That controller at Vandenberg must have thought he was back at the Springs as a Doolie again.
His chief competitors for his position, Willy Domax and Doolie Sanderson, have been missing since last August, along with half a dozen of their lieutenants.
I expected to be dragged to the trunk of his car, perhaps to wind up in the same spot as Willy Domax and Doolie Sanderson.
A continuous stream of doolies and stretchers commenced to flow from the fighting line.
At the head of the column of doolies and stretchers were the bodies of the killed, each tied with cords upon a mule.
The more serious cases are carried in doolies or litters, protected from the sun by white curtains, and borne by four natives.
The infantry escort is disposed along the line with every precaution that can be suggested, but the danger of an attack upon the long straggling string of doolies and animals in difficult and broken ground is a very real and terrible one.
Even when they'd been doolies, first-year cadets, and normally regarded as lower than the low, there had been something about Joe Mackenzie that had kept the upper-classmen from dealing him too much misery.