Sowar

Quick meaning: Sowar is a noun meaning (historical, India) A soldier on horseback, especially one during the British Raj.

Meaning

(historical, India) A soldier on horseback, especially one during the British Raj.

Example Sentences

Among the latter was Hope Grant, who had his horse shot under him in a charge, and was saved by the devotion of two men of his own regiment (the 9th Lancers) and a Mahomedan sowar of the 4th Irregular Cavalry.

Hills was struck down badly wounded, and was on the point of being despatched by a sowar, when Major Tombs, hearing the noise, rushed out of his tent, and seeing the plight his subaltern was in, fired his revolver at thirty yards and killed the sowar.

I have been laboring under the impression that, for soul-harrowing vocal effort, the wild-eyed sowars of Khorassan, as exemplified in my escort from Beerjand, were entitled to the worst execrations of a discriminating Ferenghi, but the Afghans can go them one better.

Word Forms

• sowars

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include suwar, sowarree, sowarry, sais, horseman, waler.

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