Crossword-Solution: NAIK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Naik | n. | A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NAIK | anagram | AKIN, INKA, KAIN, KINA |
We have 2 clues for the answer “NAIK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Corporal in the Indian army. | 1 answer |
| Native British-Indian officer. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
RSLAOD
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with NAIK (5)
The four who guarded Tugendheim he raised to the rank of naik, bidding them help Tugendheim drill the Syrians without relaxing vigilance over him.
Have a whisky and soda, my boy, to stiffen you before the talk with Gungadhura!" A little less than half an hour later Samson drove across the bridge in the official landau, followed by an officer, a jemadar, a naik and eight troopers of De Wing's Sikh cavalry.
The havildar, or naik, as is his right, salutes first, and then the rest follow with sufficient interval to allow you to recognise each one separately.
Later on he finds that the cup of his happiness will never be quite full until he gets ten rupees a month, and when he has reached that giddy height, he will see dawning on his horizon the strange and beautiful hope that he may be a Naik.
But who of us learns wisdom in these matters? The Naik soon comes to feel that if justice were done to merit, he would be a Havildar.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1942–1953).