Definition of Vakeel:

part of speech: noun

In the E. I., a native attorney or agent.

Usage examples:

• The courier, who had received the account from the Vakeel whether true or false he could not inform us, stated that Col. Rollo Burslem in "A Peep into Toorkisthhan".

• In April, the Lassoo Kajee was sent as Vakeel but, having on a previous occasion been dismissed for insolence and incapacity, and again rejected when proposed by the Dewan at Bhomsong, he was refused an audience; and he encamped at the bottom of the Great Rungeet valley, where he lost some of his party through fever. J. D. Hooker in "Himalayan Journals V2.".