chamarn.
/tʃəˈmɑː/ A member of an exterior Hindu caste whose occupation is leather-working; a worker in leather, a tanner, shoemaker. Also, in northern and central India, an agricultural labourer.
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hindc1230
land-tiliec1275
fieldera1425
fieldmana1425
land-tiller?a1500
field labourer1610
scullogue1665
fieldworker1691
field hand1774
spalpeen1780
land-worker1782
farmhand1794
field woman1813
grass comber1825
cowman1828
chamar1858
guajiro1901
shamba boy1907
cowman-gardener1908
tractorman1946
hoggler1986
farm worker2017
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with skins or hides > [noun] > worker with leather
codder1507
mochi1815
chamar1858
strapper?1881
leather-worker1891
1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products
1899 C. W. Doyle Taming of Jungle ii. 18 A wee little manikin of the chamar (tanner) caste.
1901 R. Kipling Kim iii. 81 All castes and kinds of men move here. Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers.
1924 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 693/1 This little swine of a chúmar.
1934 M. L. Darling Wisdom & Waste in Punjab Village 167 Chamárs and Khatiks, dealers in hides and skins, respectively.
1951 J. H. Hutton Caste in India (ed. 2) 23 The Chamar of Chattisgarh, although belonging to that exterior caste of leather-workers whose touch is polluting to caste Hindus, are here cultivators tilling the land.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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