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
"Take the wheel," ordered Peter, using the term instead of tiller, since the lascar was well acquainted with the word "wheel".
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
On the fore-deck below the bridge, steeply roofed with the white slopes of the awnings, a young lascar seaman had clambered outside the rail.
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
Then, having trimmed sheets, Mostyn took the tiller and ordered the lascar into the bows.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
"Due east, mutli," ordered Mostyn, having signed to the lascar to come aft.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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