Definitions for lascar

lascar las·car

Spelling: [las-ker]
IPA: /ˈlæs kər/

Lascar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in lascar (aaclrs).

Definitions for lascar

noun

  1. an East Indian sailor.
  2. Indian English. an artilleryman.

Origin of lascar

1615-25; Portuguese, short for lasquarin soldier Urdu lashkarī Persian, equivalent to lashkar army + -ī suffix of appurtenance

Examples for lascar

There were in my rank a woman, a cripple, and a lascar from the ships.

From the lascar he had learned all that he ever knew of the motives of the Gujarati's action.

There was the boat, the lascar resting motionless on his oar.

Grief and rage convulsed the fierce face of the wounded lascar.

The food belonged to Pambe, the Serang or head man of the lascar sailors.

That is only a lascar, one of the sailors, a picturesque fellow, isn't he?

Here is a lascar ashore from the big steamer that is to start for Alexandria on the morrow.

He has crept out of the lascar's attic, and he saw the light.

A lascar sailor, who was living with the savages, acted as interpreter.

I have seen a lascar several times while I have been down there.

Word Value for lascar
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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