shooter sowar

English

Noun

shooter sowar (plural shooter sowars)

1. (India, obsolete) The rider of a dromedary or swift camel, attached to the establishment of the viceroy on the march, and of other high officials in Upper India.

References

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “shooter sowar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].