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

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

In this complaisant state of mind he was addressed by the lascar at the helm.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

On the fore-deck below the bridge, steeply roofed with the white slopes of the awnings, a young lascar seaman had clambered outside the rail.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

It was not until he made his way to the bows and stood upon the mast thwart that he saw the craft which the lascar had indicated.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)