Usually means: Fan moved manually by rope.
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  1. punkah: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. punkah: Merriam-Webster
  3. punkah: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. punkah: Collins English Dictionary
  5. punkah: Vocabulary.com
  6. punkah: Wordnik
  7. punkah: Wiktionary
  8. punkah: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. punkah: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. punkah: Dictionary.com
  11. Punkah: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. punkah: Rhymezone
  13. punkah: FreeDictionary.org
  14. punkah: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. punkah: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. punkah: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (South Asia, Myanmar) A fan, particularly a large fan made of leaf or cloth and hung from the ceiling, (historical) formerly often operated by a servant.

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