shikar

American  

[shi-kahr] / ʃɪˈkɑr /

noun

1. the hunting of game for sport.

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verb (used with or without object)

shikarred, shikarring

1. to hunt.

shikar British  

/ ʃɪˈkɑː /

noun

1. hunting, esp big-game hunting

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verb

1. to hunt (game, esp big game)

Etymology

Origin of shikar

1600–10; < Urdu < Persian

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Example Sentences

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shikar shikarred shikarring

In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the officer Sahibs of Deoli and Nasirabad go in this tonga for shikar.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

Although I had not intended giving any shikar stories, I cannot resist quoting one from General McMaster's 'Notes on Jerdon.'

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale

All sorts of jolly beasts that you'll shikar some day.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren

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 Bertram Mitford

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 Rudyard Kipling

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 F. E. Penny

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 Rudyard Kipling

Out shikarring and sprained his ankle, I suppose.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren

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