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drabi en · NOUN

Etymology

From driver.

Meanings

1. (India, obsolete) A driver.
   • British transport officers contended that their drabis should be placed on the same footing as sepoys, because their war work was as important, and their heroism no less so. 2020, Radhika Singha, The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921, page 68:
   • One can hardly write of Suvla without a word of admiration for that patient and uncomplaining hero the Indian drabi, not forgetting his mules. 1929, Sir William Marshall, Memories of Four Fronts, page 133:

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