Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAL-AN-KEEN', or PAL-AN'QUIN, n. [In Hindoo, palkee, apparently from Sans. paluk, a couch. But it accords better with Sp. and It. palanca, a pole, Port. palanque.]

A covered carriage used in India, China, &c., borne on the shoulders of men, and in which a single person is conveyed from place to place.