ankus

American  

[ang-kuhs, uhng-kuhsh] / ˈæŋ kəs, ˈʌŋ kəʃ /

noun

plural

ankus, ankuses

1. an elephant goad of India with a spike and a hook at one end.

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ankus British  

/ ˈæŋkəs /

noun

1. a stick used, esp in India, for goading elephants

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Etymology

Origin of ankus

1885–90; < Hindi; akin to angle ²

Example Sentences

Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden sticks, crying, `Room for the King's elephant!'

From The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard

SEE     Richards, Harvey D.   Sorak and the Sultan's ankus.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

If the paths that he had followed were sometimes tortuous, along many of them he had been guided by the ankus of that mahout in whose directions his faith had taught him to confide.

From Mount Music by Ross, Martin

Deesa handed Chihun the heavy ankus, the iron elephant-goad.

From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Kipling, Rudyard

Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden sticks, crying, 'Room for the King's elephant!'

From The jungle book by Kipling, Rudyard