lascar

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While writing Sea of Poppies, he scoured old dictionaries and almanacs and filled the novel with dizzying dialogues incorporating bastardized Hindustani and lascar words that he claims entered common English parlance in the 19th century.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man who looked like a lascar stood upright in the stern.

From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax

One was the lascar whom von Horn had sent down to the Ithaca the night before but who had reached the harbor after she sailed.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Serang, se-rang′, n. the skipper of a small East Indian vessel, the boatswain of a lascar crew.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

It was necessary to put the lascar aside, gently and slowly, because it was necessary to save the boats, and, further, to demonstrate the extreme ease of the problem that looked so difficult.

From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Kipling, Rudyard