shikari
Americannoun
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shikaris
plural
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
Seated behind us in the howdah was a shikari, carrying our guns.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham
Helston Varne and the shikari conferred hurriedly together, and in the result decided that there was nothing for it but to call a halt and wait until chance should enable them to obtain their bearings.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
When Finnerty, cocking both barrels of his Paradox, raced back, the shikari said: "Chita stuck his head out to look at the sahib's back, but when I whistled he disappeared."
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
After we had been in camp about a week, a shikari brought us news that there was unquestionably a tiger not many miles away.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham
Others visit the "stops"—keen-eyed shikaris, perched like crows in the big sal-trees.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various
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 Baker, Samuel White, Sir
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 Sterndale, Robert Armitage
She was ever swift with her tongue and liked not the ways of shikaris.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917 by Various
In the caravanserais of Bokhara and Samarkand he is known, and there are shikaris in the Pamirs who still speak of him round their fires.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
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