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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Night shooting is not attractive to myself, and I very seldom have indulged in such wearisome shikar.

From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

With such a gun the Jam hoped to get better shikar when sitting on his camel and circling round the foolish crouching grouse or tuloor, and firing at them as they sat.

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher

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.

The shikar was only the more interesting if the tiger growled and showed his teeth a bit at first.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)