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
Perhaps in the meantime the bold shikari had added dozens to the total.
From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy
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
Seated behind us in the howdah was a shikari, carrying our guns.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Beatrice Violet Graham Greville
And subsequently Bhallu Khan expressed the opinion to his master that the strange sahib did not seem much of a shikari.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford
Next day, early in the morning, the local shikaris went under the leadership of the warlike Akali, to hunt glamoured and real tigers in the caves.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
This pretty little creature, miscalled "ravine-deer," is familiar to most shikaris.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
Our party consisted of Colonel Lugard, the Hon. D. Leigh, myself, and two experienced shikaris.
From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Sir Samuel White Baker
I got to know many of the chiefs, and liked them, for they were upstanding fellows to look at and heavenborn shikaris.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan
Sikkim stags are sometimes shot by native shikaris, and there is great rivalry among members of the mission force in buying their heads.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler
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