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chained_bear commented on the word mardyker
"One of a group of freed Malay slaves who were employed to fight with the Dutch colonists against the indigenous people of the Cape of Good Hope, and also later against the British, during the period of Dutch East India Company rule in the 17th and 18th centuries." (OED)
October 22, 2008