punkah / ˈpʌŋ kə /

📖毕业后词汇朋克庞克痞子朋克族

punkah2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. of, pertaining to, used on, or working a punkah: punkah ropes.

更多punkah例句

  1. During meal-times, a large punkah is employed to diffuse an agreeable degree of coolness through the apartment.
  2. Even the private soldier Page 410in Singapore has a punkah pulled over his bed at night.
  3. The carpenter has rigged up a punkah, and the men have improvised some double awnings.
  4. In spite of the exertions of the punkah coolie, the billiard-room of the Occidental Hotel was like the furnace-doors of Sheol.
  5. Inside, the droning whine of the punkah mocks him throughout the weary day, as it scarcely stirs the heated air.