单词 | gun-lascar |
释义 | > as lemmasgun-lascar 2. Anglo-Indian. ‘A tent-pitcher’; also, an inferior class of artilleryman (more fully gun-lascar). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > military servant > [noun] > one who pitches tents lascar1798 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > artilleryman > assistants match-man1612 fireworker1617 matross1639 bombardier1688 gun-lascar1798 sponger1828 horse-holder1837 cartridge-filler1871 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > artilleryman > assistants match-man1612 fireworker1617 matross1639 bombardier1688 gun-lascar1798 horse-holder1837 cartridge-filler1871 1798 J. Webbe in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 7 A body of about 14,000 men can be drawn together, including Lascars and pioneers. 1799 D. Baird in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 126 One hundred artillerymen, with a proportion of gun lascars. 1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 125 We can get neither recruits, servants, lascars, coolies, or bullock drivers. 1870 J. W. Kaye Hist. Sepoy War II. iv. iii. 89 All the natives in the Magazine, the gun-lascars, the artificers and others. < as lemmas |
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