Also 7 tarryar, taliar, 9 erron. taliary. [ad. Tamil talaiyāri.] A village watchman in Southern India.
1680. Fort St. George Consns., 10 Feb. (Y.). The Peons and Tarryars sent in quest of two soldiers who had deserted.
1693. in J. T. Wheeler, Madras in Olden Time (1861), I. 267. Taliars and Peons appointed to watch the Black Town. Ibid. (1707), II. 74. Resolving to march two hundred and fifty soldiers, two hundred talliars, and two hundred peons.
1858. J. B. Norton, Topics, 204. The taliary, or watchman, guards it from being taken away by the owners.
