shikari
Americannoun
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shikaris
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of shikari
1815–25; < Urdu < Persian
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The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chambeli stopped and put her hands to her forehead, as if she would remember something; then she said to the shikari, 'Something is lacking, Kali Dass; what is it?'
From The Taming of the Jungle by Dr. C. W. Doyle
He now stood at the steps, and, with his black ayes fixed on Lord Victor, said, in heavy gravity: "Salaam, shikari sahib."
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
My shikari made a splendid stalk and brought me within forty yards, and I got all three with a shot apiece.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
The shikari, after he had asked the locality of this encounter, said: "It is toward Kohima."
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
And he had a great camp, and many servants, and beaters, and shikaris, chief of whom was Juggoo, whose fame as a hunter reached from Phillibeet to Dehra.
From The Taming of the Jungle by Dr. C. W. Doyle
The beaters and shikaris now arrived, and having explained the incident, we examined the ground for tracks, and quickly found the claw-marks which were deeply indented in the parched surface of fine sward.
From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Sir Samuel White Baker
The Santals are very keen shikaris, and go regularly to hunt armed with bows and arrows and a few guns.
From Olivia in India by O. Douglas
The head shikaris placed us in an open position, from fifty to one hundred yards apart, facing the jungle.
From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Rounsevelle Wildman
The native shikaris say that the tiger kills the young ones if he finds them.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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