Usually means: Carried enclosed litter for transportation.
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  8. palankeen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Palankeen)

noun:  Archaic form of palanquin. [(India, chiefly historical) An enclosed human-borne litter or sedan chair, a large box with a chair, couch, or bed raised on horizontal poles and used as a mode of transport.]

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