Definitions for lascars

lascars las·car

Spelling: [las-ker]
IPA: /ˈlæs kər/

Lascars is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in lascars (aaclrss).

Definitions for lascars

noun

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

Origin of lascars

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

Examples for lascars

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for lascars
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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