1) Cooling technology
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1) Fan
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A punkah (Hindi: पङ्खा, pangkhā) is a type of fan used since the early 500 B.C.. The word pankha originated from pankh, the wings of a bird which produce a draft when flapped. In its original sense in South Asia, punkah typically describes a handheld fan made from a single frond of palmyra palm or a woven square of bamboo strips, rattan...
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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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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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n] - a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling
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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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(esp. in India) a fan, esp. a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
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