Meaning of tonjon | Babel Free

Definitions

An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back.

South-Asia, historical

Examples

“The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared.”

“The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open⟳ chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use⟳ many year ago.”

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