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‖ hircarra, -ah, hurcaru E. Ind.|hɜːˈkɑːrə|
Forms: 8 ircara, hurcurrah, hircar, harcar, 8–9 hircarra(h, -cara, 9 harcar(r)ah, halcarrah, hurkorah, hurkaru.
[Hindī, Urdū, etc. harkāra messenger, courier.]
An East Indian spy, messenger, or courier.
1747Exp. Paymaster Fort St. David (MS.) Jan. (Y. Suppl.), Given to the Ircaras for bringing news of the Engagement..4. 3. 0. 1748in J. Long Unpub. Rec. (1869) 4 (Y.) They were as far as Sundra Col, when first descried by their Hurcurrahs. 1757in E. Ives Voy. to India (1773) 161 (Y.) Hircars or spies. 1761M. White in J. Long Unpub. Rec. (1869) 260 (Y.) The head harcar returned, and told me this as well as several other secrets very useful to me. 1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 89/2 As the hircarrah came in a private manner, disguised, the President refused him an audience. 1803Wellington in Owen Wellesley's Desp. 786 We depended for our intelligence of the enemy's position on the common hircarrahs of the country. 1827D. Johnson Ind. Field Sports (ed. 2) 37, I..took with me an Harcarrah, two guns..and a spear. 1834Baboo I. vii. 118 (Stanf.) A Hurkaru announced Nuwab Yoosuf Ulee Khan Buhadoor. 1862Beveridge Hist. India II. vi. v. 690 Two friendly letters, the first brought by a camel-man, and the latter by hircarrahs. |