E. Indies. Also tomjohn. [Origin uncertain.] A kind of sedan chair slung on a pole and carried by four bearers.
c. 1804. Mrs. Sherwood, Autobiog., xvi. (1854), 300. I had a tonjon, or open palanquin, in which I rode.
1838. Lett. fr. Madras (1843), 132. After dinner he took us out to see the town: we in our palanquins, and he in his tonjon. [Note. A kind of open sedan-chair.]
1885. G. S. Forbes, Wild Life in Canara, 132. It was not practicable to take a horse,… and I began the journey in a tonjon.
