sickman

plural sickmen

1. IndiaA person who is unwell or incapacitated.

   […] the Sultan showed marvellous power of endurance, and refused to lie in bed like a sickman.

   2001, M. A. Saleem Khan, Al-Biruni's Discovery of India: An Interpretative Study, page 42

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   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.

   1896, Journal of the Buddhist Text Society of India, volume 4, page 3

   Mody K. Marak who is more than seventy is a sickman. He is very slow in the disposal of business.

   1976, V. Venkata Rao, A Century of Tribal Politics in North East India, 1874-1974, page 256