Definitions for charpoys

charpoys char·poy

Spelling: [chahr-poi]
IPA: /ˈtʃɑrˈpɔɪ/

Charpoys is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 373 anagrams from letters in charpoys (achoprsy).

Definitions for charpoys

noun

  1. a light bedstead used in India, consisting of a web of rope or tape netting.
  2. a light bedstead used in India, consisting of a web of rope or tape netting.

Origin of charpoys

1835-45; Urdu chārpāi Persian, equivalent to ch(ah)ār four + pāy foot

Examples for charpoys

charpoy, char′poi, n. the common Indian bedstead, sometimes handsomely wrought and painted.

Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter.

During the fast they brought a man to me one evening on a charpoy.

There was a possibility that he might then raise himself above the charpoy and be seen.

He lay propped on a charpoy in a nest of squab blue cushions.

I went back and sat on the edge of the charpoy, feeling regularly puzzled.

We forgot all about The Boy's follies, and only thought of the poor Thing on the charpoy and the scrawled sheets in our hands.

But writhe as he liked, his darting glances always painfully returned to the still victim on the charpoy.

He sank down upon the charpoy, a prey to the most realistic horrors that could be conjured up by a dull imagination.

They did not carry me out, but the Armenian brought me a charpoy, also burning hot.

charpoy, char′poi, n. the common Indian bedstead, sometimes handsomely wrought and painted.

Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter.

There was a possibility that he might then raise himself above the charpoy and be seen.

He sank down upon the charpoy, a prey to the most realistic horrors that could be conjured up by a dull imagination.

They did not carry me out, but the Armenian brought me a charpoy, also burning hot.

During the fast they brought a man to me one evening on a charpoy.

We forgot all about The Boy's follies, and only thought of the poor Thing on the charpoy and the scrawled sheets in our hands.

He lay propped on a charpoy in a nest of squab blue cushions.

But writhe as he liked, his darting glances always painfully returned to the still victim on the charpoy.

I went back and sat on the edge of the charpoy, feeling regularly puzzled.

Word Value for charpoys
Scrable

17

Words with friends

17

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