Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Anglo-Ind.) to move along; to run, to go.

1826		[W.B. Hockley] Pandurang Hàrì III 194: The mahouhut [...] called out to his elephant, Chul, chul, or ‘walk on quick,’ accompanying the word of command with a kick behind the creature’s ear.
1829		[H.B. Henderson] Bengalee 146: When he inspects his indigo fields, he takes a dékh at the plant, or chuls over the kates: he calls Alport his old doost; and conversing with his good lady, a little bat-cheet with the beebee-sahib!
1844		E. Napier Wild Sports in Europe, Asia and Africa 16: I soon found myself snugly stowed in my palkee, trotting to the musical notes of six sturdy bearers, through the gates, over the portcullis of the fort, and ‘chulling’ along the broad, smooth and – at this evening hour – much frequented road bordering the beach.
1857		Bombay Quarterly Rev. V 134: ‘Where are you chulling to?’ You beg his pardon. ‘Where are you chulling – chulling? Where are you going, – don’t you hear?’.
1865		Hotten Sl. Dict. 101: CHULLA, make haste. An abbreviation of the Hindostanee CHULLO, signifying ‘go along.’CHULL is very commonly used to accelerate the motions of a servant, driver, or palanquin-bearer.
1884		Kipling ‘Himalayan (Joachim Miller)’ in Early Prose (1900) 99: Fly from the land that is parched and dead, / To Simla or Murree or Naini Tal, / With a limber lunkah thrust in your mouth, / And a solah topee to guard your head, / And a tat beneath you can trust to chel.
1892		D. Hamilton Records of Sport in Sthn India 3: I distinctly heard the flop of the ball striking him, but [...] as the antelope ‘chulled’ so well, I fully concluded that I had made a miss.