shikar
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of shikar
1600–10; < Urdu < Persian
Example Sentences
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In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is a very rare qualification, but most necessary in a good shikar elephant.
From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
When he heard that his old friend Varne Coates—and especially the latter’s relative, and his friend, were on a shikar expedition two or three days out, that was sufficient.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
Our brief experience of camping and "shikar" had proved to my wife that she was not cast in the heroic mould of a female Nimrod.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
As things turned out, however, it made all the difference in the world, for if he had not accompanied us, my shikar would in all probability have ended disastrously next day.
From The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Selous, Frederick Courteney
I believe in well-flushed culverts … This is why the death-rate's small; And, if you don't believe me, get shikarred yourself.
From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Kipling, Rudyard
However, a man who goes shikarring for any length of time in one of Ram Baksh's tongas would soon learn to dispense with anything and everything.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
The cicalas whirred in the foliage of the oleanders, and a brown owl screamed in its shikarring flight over the roof of the house.
From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.
Out shikarring and sprained his ankle, I suppose.
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher
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