jemadar

/jem-uh-dahr/US // ˈdʒɛm əˌdɑr //UK // (ˈdʒɛməˌdɑː) //

癸卯年

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of various government officials.
- : the supervisor of a staff of servants.
- : an officer in a sepoy regiment, corresponding in rank to a lieutenant.

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.
The Jemadar fell beneath my own handkerchief, and a few shrieks and groans told the rest—all had died.
Late at night we rose on them, killed some, and the rest ran away, among them the cowardly Jemadar.
The worst of all was, however, that there were two young girls of a marriageable age, the daughters of the Jemadar.
The Jemadar was awarded seven years' transportation, and the eighteen deserters terms varying from ten years to one year.