Lascar

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lascar \Las"car\, n. [Per. & Hind. lashkar an army, an inferior
     artillery man, a cooly, a native sailor.]
     A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial
     employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.
     [East Indies]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lascar
       n 1: an East Indian sailor
       2: a volcano in the Andes in Chile