shikar

American  

[shi-kahr] / ʃɪˈkɑr /

noun

1. the hunting of game for sport.

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verb (used with or without object)

shikarred, shikarring

1. to hunt.

shikar British  

/ ʃɪˈkɑː /

noun

1. hunting, esp big-game hunting

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verb

1. to hunt (game, esp big game)

Etymology

Origin of shikar

1600–10; < Urdu < Persian

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Example Sentences

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shikar shikarred shikarring

In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes.

From Time Magazine Archive

One hot afternoon, Grantham, who was a keen sportsman, took his gun, and, accompanied by a wiry little Shan servant, departed into the jungle on shikar thoughts intent.

From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby

The men considered it now time to get up some "shikar," so they invented a bear.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

But a curious bit of shikar fell to my lot one day.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

My elephant also will ride them in the jungles and give shikar to them as there are lipperds concealed in the thicket adjacent near the river.

From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Harold Begbie

I believe in well-flushed culverts … This is why the death-rate's small; And, if you don't believe me, get shikarred yourself.

From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling

Out shikarring and sprained his ankle, I suppose.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren

However, a man who goes shikarring for any length of time in one of Ram Baksh's tongas would soon learn to dispense with anything and everything.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

The cicalas whirred in the foliage of the oleanders, and a brown owl screamed in its shikarring flight over the roof of the house.

From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

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