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Oriental porters
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coolies
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of coolie English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cooly \Coo"ly\, Coolie \Coo"lie\, n.; pl. Coolies . [Hind. k?l[=i] a laborer, porter: cf. Turk. k?l, ky?leh, slave.] An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
Usage examples of coolies.
Maybe it would be better to come back with help—get some of the coolies into a posse, and then.
The strongest of the coolies could survive for a long time out here and maybe some of them could even complete the trek back to the Pole, to Parz City.
Of course there were basic medical facilities for the coolies, but nothing with any more ambition than to patch them up and send them back to work.
Frankly, if one of his coolies were injured as badly as old Adda he'd expect him to die.
So far upflux the Air tastes like glue and the coolies are weaker than Air-piglets.
He can't take the thin Air, of course, so he mostly stays in his car, watching the coolies getting on with their work.
Right on the fringe of the hinterland, so far upflux that it's hard even to get coolies to work out there, for fear of.
The other coolies seemed more interested in another farm, still more distant and harder to make out than Frenk's.
He picked out Dura, smiling with apparent kindness at her, and while the other coolies dispersed among the buildings, he offered to show Dura around his farm.
Rauc said the herd was kept—not for commercial purposes—but to provide meat for the coolies, leather for smocks and hats.
Most of the coolies were, after all, City-born—and mostly from the Downside where conditions were even more cramped than the average.
So off-shift coolies shoveled themselves into this stinking box, listening to each other breathe and pretending that they weren't stranded out here in the Mantle, but were tucked away inside the cozy confines of Parz.
As the Air-chariot had hurtled beneath the devastated hinterland, Muub had caught shocking, vivid glimpses of smashed fields—of coolies and uprooted wheat-stems drifting alike in the placid Air—of shattered, exploded buildings.
After Rauc's death, and after she'd helped to cope with the worst of the destruction at Qos Frenk's farm, she learned that most of the coolies were to be released from their indentures.
Here and there coolies still toiled patiently at the shattered land, but the naked ceiling had none of the vigor of the natural forest.