lascar
an East Indian sailor.
Indian English. an artilleryman.
Origin of lascar
1- Also lashkar.
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How to use lascar in a sentence
Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe lascar moved his feet cautiously, and they rustled among dried stumps.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingAt last the lascar rose and floundered through the mud toward the village, but he was careful to leave an ally to watch the boats.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingA lascar is standing by grinning, with a bucket of water and a deck-swab; they want to begin holystoning down the decks.
Round the Wonderful World | G. E. MittonJasper, waking, makes experiments on the talk of the old woman, the lascar and Chinaman in their sleep.
The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for lascar
/ (ˈlæskə) /
a sailor from the East Indies
Origin of lascar
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