coolicoy

Updated: May 3, 2025

This is sometimes nailed onto the upright timbers or bamboos, but in the country parts it is more commonly interwoven, or matted, in breadths of six inches, and a piece, or sheet, formed at once of the size required. In some places they use for the same purpose the kulitkayu, or coolicoy, as it is pronounced by the Europeans, who employ it on board ship as dunnage in pepper and other cargoes.

William Marsden - The History of Sumatra: Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And: Manners Of The Native Inhabitants