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What is a sirdar?

What is a sirdar? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman.
  2. The leader of a group of Sherpa mountain guides.
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The officers rearranged their chairs in a circle while the sirdar, a bearded man in a white lace skullcap, started serving them.
On that date the sirdar went by steamer to the front, direct to Wad Habeshi.
In 1892 General Horatio Kitchener was appointed sirdar of the Egyptian army.
The shop stocks Sirdar yarns plus wool, patterns, books, knitting needles, sewing needles, thread, buttons and small haberdashery items.
The sirdar had but to ask, to receive all the material and men he wished for.
A Sirdar was a rank assigned to the British commander in chief of the Egyptian Army during the 19th century when the British controlled Egypt.

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