charpoys

They're sitting on charpoys, beds made of wood and rope.

Riddle On Grand Trunk Road: Where To Begin? 2010

All down the wide verandas, on sheetless charpoys, rows of grey-faced men lay silent and moveless.

Burmese Days 2002

Get your men out of their bloody charpoys and on that stretch of miadan at the double!

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

'The men would not budge from their charpoys, sah.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

Connie said that they had finished about one o'clock and had slept for a few hours on charpoys in the hangar; they had the engines running and the machines all ready to go when we got there, so they had probably been working again at dawn.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

As walls were absent on one side of each house, if not on two sides, the effect was that of a number of deep verandas which disclosed sleeping charpoys in the dim background.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

Arjan Singh paid the villagers with money left with him by Wazir Hussein to build an atap dormitory hut, a simple affair that consisted of little but a board floor raised two feet above the ground, a thatched roof, and a lot of charpoys or string beds.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

The nine forms lay flat or curled up on their charpoys -- all was well.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

But they lay listless on their charpoys; they knew no English, and there was nothing in Desmond's tone to quicken their hopelessness.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

But he saw that the eight men, all natives, were lying on crude charpoys along the wall, each man chained to a staple like his own.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang