What is "charpoy"

Usage examples of "charpoy".

The furniture consisted chiefly of two charpoys, three tabourets, an old divan quite innocent of cushions, a broken punkah, a three-legged chair and a dilapidated rug.

The ceiling sagged listlessly, and the one charpoy which it contained had a wobbly look.

Because they had made a deal with the Ravana mob, and, when tipped off about the gang's impending arrival, would take sleeping draughts and pull their charpoy beds away from the buildings of the estate.

They pulled their charpoys well away from my father's godown to avoid falling beams and showering sparks.

Get your men out of their bloody charpoys and on that stretch of miadan at the double!

In the open, a woman, seated upon a string charpoy, rocked a cradle with her foot, while her hands were busy with a needle, and an old woman, with a black shawl upon her shoulders and head, sat near by, inactive.

Sir John, with his one good foot, personally kicked in the merchant's door, dragged him out from under his charpoy bed, dropped him to his knees with a fullblooded round-house punch, chained him around the neck and marched him through the city streets to the consulate and locked him in the wine cellar until the fine was paid and the slaves" manumission papers signed.

Through cracks in the timber, they spied an aged Sikh, snoozing on a charpoy in the shade of a wizened mango tree.

Owen looked out the window, saw men reclined on charpoys outside spice stalls, white vultures hunched in trees.