LASCAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lascar mean? 

• LASCAR (noun)
  The noun LASCAR has 2 senses:

1. an East Indian sailor

2. a volcano in the Andes in Chile

  Familiarity information: LASCAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LASCAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An East Indian sailor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lascar" is a kind of...):

crewman; sailor (any member of a ship's crew)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A volcano in the Andes in Chile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

volcano (a mountain formed by volcanic material)

Holonyms ("Lascar" is a part of...):

Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)

 Context examples 

No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This fellow, a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that my secret was safe in his possession.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So much for the Lascar manager.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The police have watched this Lascar, said Inspector Bradstreet, and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to post a letter unobserved.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I gave a cry of surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from coming up to me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Both he and the Lascar stoutly swore that no one else had been in the front room during the afternoon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Knowing that my wife would be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to fear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Had I been recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an hour’s purchase; for I have used it before now for my own purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have vengeance upon me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has little time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)