"sickman" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the English phrase sick man, adopted into sepoy patois.",
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      "form": "sickmen",
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        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1896, Journal of the Buddhist Text Society of India, volume 4, page 3:",
          "text": "Generally the entrails of big animals are kept suspended at full length by means of strong ropes and a stick is taken to point out, to the friends of a sickman or an inquirer, the particular sign of recovery or of death which is indicated by peculiar marks in the entrails of the slain animal.",
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          "ref": "1976, V. Venkata Rao, A Century of Tribal Politics in North East India, 1874-1974, page 256:",
          "text": "Mody K. Marak who is more than seventy is a sickman. He is very slow in the disposal of business.",
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          "ref": "2001, M. A. Saleem Khan, Al-Biruni's Discovery of India: An Interpretative Study, page 42:",
          "text": "[…] the Sultan showed marvellous power of endurance, and refused to lie in bed like a sickman.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is unwell or incapacitated."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "unwell",
          "unwell"
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        [
          "incapacitated",
          "incapacitated"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India) A person who is unwell or incapacitated."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sickman"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the English phrase sick man, adopted into sepoy patois.",
  "forms": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1896, Journal of the Buddhist Text Society of India, volume 4, page 3:",
          "text": "Generally the entrails of big animals are kept suspended at full length by means of strong ropes and a stick is taken to point out, to the friends of a sickman or an inquirer, the particular sign of recovery or of death which is indicated by peculiar marks in the entrails of the slain animal.",
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          "ref": "1976, V. Venkata Rao, A Century of Tribal Politics in North East India, 1874-1974, page 256:",
          "text": "Mody K. Marak who is more than seventy is a sickman. He is very slow in the disposal of business.",
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              86,
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          "text": "[…] the Sultan showed marvellous power of endurance, and refused to lie in bed like a sickman.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is unwell or incapacitated."
      ],
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        "(India) A person who is unwell or incapacitated."
      ],
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  "word": "sickman"
}