Merikin (English, noun)
expansion: Merikin (plural Merikins)
Senses:
glosses: One of the African-American refugees of the War of 1812: freed black slaves who fought for the British against the USA in the Corps of Colonial Marines and then, after post-war service in Bermuda, were established as a community in the south of Trinidad in 1815–16.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: Merikins
tags: plural