Crossword clues for havildar
havildar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Havildar \Hav`il*dar"\ (h[a^]v`[i^]l*d[aum]r"), n. In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.
Wiktionary
n. A type of soldier in parts of India, later a specific military rank of the British Indian Army and of the modern armies of India and Pakistan, equivalent to sergeant.
Wikipedia
A havildar or havaldar ( ( Devanagari) ( Perso-Arabic)) was the military commander of a fort during the times of the Mughal Empire and later Maratha Empire. In the British Indian Army, it was the equivalent rank to sergeant, next above naik, and is still used in the modern Indian Army and Pakistan Army. The cavalry equivalent is daffadar. Like a British sergeant, a havildar wears three rank chevrons.
Usage examples of "havildar".
And it said that the men had beaten its ayah, but that the havildar Ben Allar had sent it down the road to ask its way to the house of the Nawab.
One group of police sowars was standing chatting, taking off equipment, and one, formed up under the command of a havildar, was preparing to go on duty.
Portuguese authorities, but the interior of the country, traversed only by slave caravans, driven under the lash of the havildars.
The Gurkhas were Jemedar Lalbahadur Thapa, and newly promoted Havildars Chittahang Limbu and Mahkhajiri Gurung.
Havildar said, glancing back at the wall above the ravine where the gunners were suddenly at work.
They were all driven along without any attempt at order, the havildars using their whips unsparingly upon them whenever they showed signs of flagging.
Negoro, the Arab dealers and their havildars all helped to swell the numbers, the queen having given express orders that no one who had been at the lakoni should leave the town, and it was not deemed prudent to disobey her commands.
A murmur ran through the watching sixteen companies, but the jemadars and havildars shouted and the sullen murmur ceased.
The Havildar commanding the Cobra company had been appalled to see the redcoats charging.
The officers were at mess at nine o'clock in the evening, when a havildar of Sikhs burst into the courtyard with the news that the sound of a pick could be heard from the chamber of the tower.