† manjeen.
Anglo-Indian. Obsolete.
A captain or steersman of a boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot
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1683 W. Hedges Diary 20 May (1887) I. 89 Which made our Mangee or Steerman advise us to fasten our boat in some Creeke.
1781 India Gaz. 17 Feb. in H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) (at cited word) The principal Gaut Mangies of Calcutta have entered into engagements at the Police office to supply all Persons that apply there with Boats.
1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum I. 283 The Manjy, Goleeah, and Dandy, are the steers-man, bow-man, and common rower in a boat, respectively.
1829 G. C. Mundy Pen & Pencil Sketches (1832) II. iii. 148 The maungee* gave the word for weighing.
1848 Alfred in India 99 A budgerow..is under the command of a mangie, who steers.
1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 257 Few manjees, or steersmen of boats, leave the city without [etc.].
1885 Statesman (Calcutta) 8 Oct. 5/4 The manji told me that only a day or two before, the waters upon them were from 7 to 10 cubits deep.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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