shikari
Americannoun
plural
shikarisnoun
Etymology
Origin of shikari
1815–25; < Urdu < Persian
Example Sentences
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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
Yet the eldest of these latter exactly resembled in every way Little John, the man who was my shikari in Kar Nicobar.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden
Finnerty sent the elephants on, keeping Mahadua, the shikari.
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
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 Doyle, Dr. C. W.
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.
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