punkah / ˈpʌŋ kə /
📖毕业后词汇朋克庞克痞子朋克族
punkah 的 2 个定义
n. 名词 noun- 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- of, pertaining to, used on, or working a punkah: punkah ropes.
更多punkah例句
- During meal-times, a large punkah is employed to diffuse an agreeable degree of coolness through the apartment.
- Even the private soldier Page 410in Singapore has a punkah pulled over his bed at night.
- The carpenter has rigged up a punkah, and the men have improvised some double awnings.
- In spite of the exertions of the punkah coolie, the billiard-room of the Occidental Hotel was like the furnace-doors of Sheol.
- Inside, the droning whine of the punkah mocks him throughout the weary day, as it scarcely stirs the heated air.