Indian. Also 7 lescar, leskar. [Urdu (Pers.) lashkar army, camp. See LASCAR.] † a. A camp of native Indian soldiers (obs.). b. In the newspaper accounts of the Afridi campaign of 1897, frequently used for: A body of Afridi soldiers.
1616. Sir T. Roe, in Purchas, Pilgrims (1625), I. 559. I tooke horse to auoyd presse and other inconuenience and crossed out of the Leskar before him.
1625. Terry, ibid., II. IX. vi. 1481. There being no lesse then two hundred thousand men, women, and children in this Leskar, or Campe.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 32. Normall his Queene … had passed safely ouer the Riuer, with most part of the Lescar, or Army, which shee immediately put into Battaglia.
