havildarn.
/ˈhavɪldɑː/ East India.
‘A sepoy non-commissioned officer, corresponding to a sergeant’ (Yule).
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1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 126 I sent to the Havaldar, to know when he would pass us up the Gaot.
1788 Gentleman's Mag. 58 i. 68/1 A second flag, with a Sabahdaur and two Havildars, was sent in.
1839 W. M. Thackeray Major Gahagan vii The..havildars were absent.
1866 D. Livingstone 8 May in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. ii. 36 I left the havildar, sepoys [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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