Definition of "jemidar" []

• Alternative spelling of jemadar. (noun)

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• "` ` A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going, with others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted."
• "A jemidar of ours brought in a Hillman today, who says that the tribes are massing in the Terada ravine, ten miles to the north of us, and intend attacking the next convoy."
• "I then walked the rounds with my jemidar, and having seen that all was right I turned in a little before eleven."