Hummal is an archaic Anglo-Indian term for a porter or luggage carrier — a person who transported goods, bags, or loads on their person or using simple equipment. The term appears in colonial-era accounts of travel and trade in India, where porters were essential to commerce and movement in cities and along trade routes. Entirely archaic in contemporary usage; of interest to historians of colonial South Asia and labour history.
A hummal was engaged at the dock to carry the trunks to the waiting carriage.
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(India, archaic) A porter.
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