The muncheel or manjeel..., also written munsheel and munchil, from the Malayālam manjīl, manjāl, mañchīl, mañchāl and Sanskrit maṇcha, is the name given to a kind of hammock-litter used on the south-west coast of India... It is shaded by a cover, which in some cases is held up by a frame of bent canes.
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