Obs. exc. Hist. Also bucksaree, -ry, buxarry. [Of uncertain etymology: Col. Yule (Appendix) suggests that it may be Hind. baksārī ‘native of Buxar.’] A matchlock-man.
1757. Clive, in Grant, Hist. India, I. ix. 52/2. Leaving only a few Europeans with 200 new-raised Bucksarees to guard our camp.
1778. E. Long, Jamaica, 1 (Y.). Having sent Ensign McKion with … 150 buxerries.
1850. Broome, Rise & Progr. Bengal Army (Y.). Buxarries were nothing more than Burkandaz, armed and equipped in the usual native manner.
c. 1880. Grant, Hist. India, I. viii. 45/1. 1,500 Bucksaries, or native matchlockmen.
