Also cartle. [S. African Dutch; app. ad. Pg. catel, catle, catre ‘little bed,’ according to Schuchardt (Kreol. Stud. IX. 119), a South Indian word, Tamil kaṭṭil bedstead, adopted and diffused by the Portuguese.] The wooden bed or hammock, in a South African ox-wagon.
1880. P. Gillmore, On Duty, 275. The worthy missionary had his waggon brought in front of the porch, swung a cartle in it, and made my bed there.
1883. Olive Schreiner, Story Afr. Farm, II. xii. (1887), 276. Next day Gregory carried her … to the waggon…. As he laid her down on the ‘kartel’ she looked far out across the plain.
1885. Rider Haggard, K. Solomon’s Mines, iii. (1887), 42. In this after part was a hide ‘cartle’ or bed.
