shikari
noun
(in India) a person who hunts big game, especially a professional guide or hunter.
shikaris
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pluralof shikari.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The next day I again went off with my two shikaris over the mountains.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
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
Mr. Younghusband very kindly gave us a letter to his neighbor, the Rajah of Kahrigur, who furnished us with shikaris, beaters, bullock carts, two ponies and an elephant.
From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various
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
