Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bed consisting of a wooden frame strung with interlaced cords or webbing, used chiefly in South Asia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India, a pallet-bed; the common portable bedstead of the natives, adopted by Europeans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun India A type of common
bedstead in India.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word charpoy.
Examples
-
A charpoy is a bed, and everybody in Rubbulgurh puts one outside, for sociability, in the evening.
The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
-
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them.
BBC News - Home 2010
chained_bear commented on the word charpoy
"She was given a tent with two charpoys (string beds) and an oil stove outside it on which she had to cook supper while beating off the insects."
—Annabel Venning, Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (London: Headline, 2005), 71
May 5, 2010