Anglo-Ind. Also -koon. [Mahrattī kārkūn clerk, a. Pers. kār-kun operator, manager, f. kār action, work, business.] A clerk.
1803. Wellington, Lett., in Gurw., Disp., II. 161. A carkoon, whom he sent to me this morning.
1816. Elphinstone, in Q. Rev. (1884), 374. The carcoon who brought it missed the detachment.
1858. Beveridge, Hist. India, III. VIII. i. 267. ‘He laboured,’ says Duff, ‘as assiduously as any carcoon under his government.’
