In southern India, hire; wages. Also spelled culy.(noun)
The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)
Use "kuli" in a sentence
"In the California that Judah P. Benjamin helped bring into the Union canals that made the Sacramento Valley a global agricultural power were dug by semi-slave indentured Chinese kuli labor."
"Benjamin helped bring into the Union canals that made the Sacramento Valley a global agricultural power were dug by semi-slave indentured Chinese kuli labor."
""He [Ortner] is a bit of an egoist, too, in his work and there have already been a few incidents which showed me that I had to look out or he would use me as a well-qualified kuli, [which would be] most comfortable for him.""