Sewar is a historical Anglo-Indian term for a native cavalry soldier or mounted trooper serving under the British East India Company or the British Indian Army. The term appears extensively in colonial-era military records, histories of the Indian Mutiny, and accounts of the Bengal and Bombay cavalry. Archaic in contemporary usage; it survives in historical scholarship and period literature about British India's military organisation.
A patrol of sewars rode out to scout the road ahead before the column moved forward.
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(India, historical) A native trooper.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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