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‖ talliar|ˈtælɪə(r)| Also 7 tarryar, taliar, 9 erron. taliary. [ad. Tamil talaiyāri.] A village watchman in Southern India.
1680Fort St. George Consns. 10 Feb. (Y.), The Peons and Tarryars sent in quest of two soldiers who had deserted. 1693in Wheeler Madras in Old. Time (1861) I. 267 Taliars and Peons appointed to watch the Black Town. 1707Ibid. II. 74 Resolving to march two hundred and fifty soldiers, two hundred talliars, and two hundred peons. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 204 The taliary, or watchman, guards it from being taken away by the owners. |