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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

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

Whenever afterwards I wanted to chaff this "boy", I had only to ask whether he would like to come and see some more shikar.

From The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Selous, Frederick Courteney

At school and at Oxford he had been too delicate for games, and in India, too busy, and too interested in more intellectual matters, for shikar, sport and hunting. 

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.

The English sahibs found sport in stalking markhôr or tiger shooting or in other forms of shikar.

From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram

The men considered it now time to get up some "shikar," so they invented a bear.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

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

Out shikarring and sprained his ankle, I suppose.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher

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.

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