mahseer

How to use mahseer in a sentence

• Though called the salmon of India, the mahseer is really a species of barbel.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 4 | Various

• I rather think the Taiping water is too discoloured and sandy for mahseer.

  From Edinburgh to India & Burmah | William G. Burn Murdoch

• You have heard of the famous mahseer—some of them over eighty or a hundred pounds weight?

  Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier | James Inglis

• There was a movement under the cloth, and a little snake wriggled out, to be back-broken by the butt of the mahseer-rod.

  Life's Handicap | Rudyard Kipling

• I never myself eat any mahseer, or other Indian river fish, anything like it.

  The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains | Augustus Henry Irby