cassabn.
/kəˈsɑːb/ A seaman of Asian origin employed in the merchant service.
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?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 35 Cussab or Cassab..in P. and O. Service.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §735 Cassub, cussab; a member of Asiatic crew employed, either as lamp trimmer (on deck) or as storekeeper in steward's department.
1924 Glasgow Herald 17 May 4 There is usually an elder, not necessarily a Haji, who carries a copy of the Quran. On board ship he is, as a rule, the cassab.
1960 Times 16 Mar. p. xiv/4 There will be the specialist posts of cook, store-keeper and lampman (bhandary, cassab and battiwallah).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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