noun. An East Indian sailor, army servant, or artillery trooper during the era of European colonialism in Asia.

noun. An artilleryman of an inferior class: a gun-lascar.

noun. In the East Indies, a native tent-pitcher, camp-follower, or regimental servant.

noun. An East Indian sailor.

noun. A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.

noun. A sailor, army servant or artilleryman from India or Southeast Asia.

noun. a volcano in the Andes in Chile

noun. an East Indian sailor

"Sailors from all around the Indian Ocean went by the name 'lascar'East Africans, South Asians, Filipinos, Chinese, Malays."

crewman  sailor  volcano  

abstainer  black-whiskered  blindfolded  bosom-friend  cheesemonger