Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   In southern India, hire; wages. Also spelled 
culy . 
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Examples
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Benjamin helped bring into the Union canals that made the Sacramento Valley a global agricultural power were dug by semi-slave indentured Chinese kuli labor.
Eric Ehrmann: Slave Reparations -- The Globalist Connection Eric Ehrmann 2010
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In the California that Judah P. Benjamin helped bring into the Union canals that made the Sacramento Valley a global agricultural power were dug by semi-slave indentured Chinese kuli labor.
Eric Ehrmann: Slave Reparations -- The Globalist Connection 2010
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I used to play the “buah kuli” of 5 marbles that you flip them over with your palm.
Thoughts To Think 2007
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"He [Ortner] is a bit of an egoist, too, in his work and there have already been a few incidents which showed me that I had to look out or he would use me as a well-qualified kuli, [which would be] most comfortable for him."
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Surely she can manage without her beloved kuli extraordinaire for a day?
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2006
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Today marks the one year death anniversary of me, the kuli extraordinaire, working at this crummy place.
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2006
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Zaczynamy od małej kuli nieskończonej masy i energii.
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He was a Cantonese kuli descended from ten generations of kulis!
the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995
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The kuli and the foreigner grabbed them with their eager bands, And with all my atrength, 1 pulled them in.
the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995
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Its use for processing groundnuts compared with the traditional way of preparing oil and "kuli-kuli" is described by Corbett.
 
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