head serang; head sherang noun the person in charge AUSTRALIA,1918 From Anglo-Indian serang (a captain of a native Indian vessel), from Persian.
I’ll go down and see the head serang. — D’Arcy Niland, TheShiralee, p. 123, 1955
The head sherangs wrote nasty little notes to the lower bosses every time they saw it, and the little bosses protested as reasonably as they could to the office staff[.] — David Ireland, TheUnknownIndustrial Prisoner, p. 36, 1971