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Lascar

noun

An East Indian sailor.

A volcano in the Andes in Chile.

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"Lascar" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ocean sets an' smiles So sof', so bright, so bloomin' blue; There aren't a wave for miles an' miles Excep' the jiggle from the screw. The ship is swep', the day is done, The bugle's gone for smoke and play; An' black agin' the settin' sun The Lascar sings, ...

— Barrack-Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling

... and stepping into the boat which had rowed him to the Kent, he was quickly conveyed to the grab. In a few minutes he left this in a skiff accompanied only by Fuzl Khan and a lascar. Not till then did he explain what he required of them. The Gujarati seemed overcome by the selection of himself ...

— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... swam ashore was a Lascar. He said that the chief o' the pirates, who seemed to own both junks, was a big ferocious Malay with only one eye—he might have added with no heart at all, if what he said o' the scoundrel was true, for ...

— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne

Words linked to "Lascar" : crewman, Republic of Chile, sailor, chile, volcano