Look up: Punkah

1. punkah
   [n] - a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling
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2. 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
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3. 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)
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4. 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.
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5. Punkah
   . A `punkah` (Hindi and Urdu pronunciation: pankha) is a type of fan used in the early 500 B.C.. 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 larg...
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