What is "chokidar"

Usage examples of "chokidar".

The next, that unless I had a chokidar [native watchman] neither my property nor my throat would be safe, since it was impossible to keep robbers out of the camp at night.

It is true the Selwyns had a chokidar, which is the way English people in India purchase immunity from the robbers, the chokidars being always selected from those tribes or villages in the vicinity which furnish the greatest number of robbers, but there had been many instances lately of theft and in some cases of violence and bloodshed at night, so that my faith in chokidardom was rather shaken.

The chokidar was at his post, giving from time to time that horrid cough which they all give, a kind of sentry's 'all's well'.

There, on the ground, with his throat cut from ear to ear, his head thrown back and a horrible yawning gap, from which a stream or river of blood was still gushing, separating his chin from his chest, lay the luckless chokidar, whose cough had given me such comfort when I heard it on the preceding nights.

The chokidar brought a warm bottled grapefruit juice for Frazer to drink.

He marched downstairs and into the garden, revving the truck impatiently as she stayed on the terrace to talk to the chokidar, who was now joined by the old woman Frazer had seen from the window.