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单词 silladar
释义 silladar Anglo-Ind.|ˈsɪlədɑː(r)|
Also silladari, sillahdari, silledar, sillahdar.
[a. Urdū (Pers.) silāhdār armour-bearer, squire, f. Arab. silāh arms, armour.]
An irregular cavalryman who provides his own horse and arms; often used attrib.
1802Wellington in Gurw. Disp. (1844) I. 312 The horse are 2000 good,..and 1500 [of these are] silladar.1803Ibid. 323 A body of silladar horse.1813J. Forbes Oriental Mem. III. 349 A silledar, or soldier of fortune.1842W. Miles tr. Hist. Hydur Naik 173 With only six thousand stable horse, nine thousand Sillahdars,..and six guns.1931E. Howell Mizh i. 9 The men were on a sillahdari basis.1960Ld. Ismay Memoirs i. 7 The 21st Cavalry, like nearly all other Indian Cavalry regiments, was organised on what was known as the silladar system.1974P. Mason Matter of Honour i. 26 Until 1914 many regiments of cavalry were still silladāri—that is to say, the regiment was a kind of joint-stock company in which the trooper paid for his horse and equipment when he joined and sold them back when he left.
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