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Look up: Punkah

  1. Punkah
    Originally, a punkah was a portable fan made from the leaf of the palmra, but in Anglo-Indian parlance a large fixed and swinging fan formed of cloth attached to a rectangular frame suspended from the ceiling and pulled backwards and forwards by means of a cord, thus causing a current of air in the apartment.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. punkah
    [n] - a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. punkah
    noun a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for circulating air in a room
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  4. Punkah
    A `punkah` (Hindi `pankha`) is a type of fan. In its original sense the punkah was a portable fan made from the leaf of the palmyra. In the colonial age, the word came to be used in a special sense by Anglo-Indians in British India for a large swinging fan, fixed to the ceiling, and pulled by a coolie, called the `punkahwalla`, during the hot weather. The date of this invention is not known, but it was familiar to the Arabs as early as the 8t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punkah

  5. punkah
    a large swinging cloth frame pulled by a string by the punkah wallah to help circulate air in stiflingly hot rooms (a predecessor of the ventilator)
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib


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