syce

American  

[sahys] / saɪs /

Or saice,

noun

1. (in India) a groom; stable attendant.

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syce British  

/ saɪs /

noun

1. (formerly, in India) a servant employed to look after horses, drive carriages, etc

2. (in Malaysia) a driver or chauffeur

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Etymology

Origin of syce

1645–55; < Urdu sā'is < Arabic

Example Sentences

At last my pony with his syce and the missing kit arrived, and I was enabled to start for Gnatong the next day.

From To Lhassa at Last by Millington, Powell

Finnerty was off; rounding a turn, he came head on into a fleeing syce, who was knocked flat, to lie there, crying: "Oh, my lord, the sahib is eaten by a tiger!"

From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.

So agile did he become, that no name among the syce of Egypt was more renowned than that of Mahmoud.

From Harper's Young People, April 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Now and again a syce hurried past, with head and shoulders enveloped in a sack.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

The syce, Sidhoo, was a smart, open-chested, sinewy-limbed little fellow, a perfect model of a biped racer.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various