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

"Due east, mutli," ordered Mostyn, having signed to the lascar to come aft.

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

Shortly after von Horn became separated from Virginia he collided with the fleeing lascar who had escaped the parangs of Muda Saffir's head hunters at the same time as had Bududreen.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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

The Malay and lascar crew divided their time between watch duty on board the Ithaca, policing the camp, and cultivating a little patch of clearing just south of their own campong.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice