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Sirdar   Listen
noun
Sirdar  n.  
1.
A native chief in Hindostan; a headman.
2.
In Turkey, Egypt, etc., a commander in chief, esp. the one commanding the Anglo-Egyptian army.





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"Sirdar" Quotes from Famous Books



... began to spread. Tribe after tribe helped to fan the fires of rebellion into a blaze, until at last Sirdar Chuttur Singh, whom everybody had thought to be tamed, threw off his allegiance and raised his wild Hazara followers. To Nicholson news speedily came that Chuttur Singh meant to seize the fort at Attock, an important hill station. Although suffering from fever, ...
— John Nicholson - The Lion of the Punjaub • R. E. Cholmeley
... four consummate knaves do set down the palkee, and shift the pads on their shoulders; while the sirdar slips round to the sliding-door, and timidly intruding his sweaty phiz, at an opening sufficiently narrow to guard his nose against assault from within, but wide enough to give us a glimpse, through an out-bursting cloud of cheroot-smoke, of a pair of stout legs encased in white duck, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various


Words linked to "Sirdar" :   personage, important person


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