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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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sarhang

a commander.]

The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

serang ‎(plural serangs)

(India, now historical) A native Indian boatswain; a lascar captain.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p.14:
  The discovery that the substance in his mouth was of vegetable origin came as no great reassurance to Zachary: once, when the serang spat a stream of blood-red juice over the rail, he noticed the water below coming alive with the thrashing of shark's fins.

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