palkee

English

Noun

palkee (plural palkees)

  1. Archaic form of palki (“a palanquin”).
    • 1859, John Williamson Palmer, Up and Down the Irrawaddi:
      These palkees, which, to an inexperienced person, offer, even when empty, a hopeless weight, are conveyed by them, with a heavy passenger within, at the rate of twenty or thirty miles a day

References
  • palkee in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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