shikar
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of shikar
1600–10; < Urdu < Persian
Example Sentences
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In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Begbie, Harold
He would start just before dawn on Abdul's shikar camel, be well away from Kot Ghazi by daylight and reach the old deserted dak-bungalow, that no one ever used, by evening.
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher
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 Swinburne, T. R.
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 Boothby, Guy
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 Kipling, Rudyard
Out shikarring and sprained his ankle, I suppose.
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher
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 Kipling, Rudyard
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 Penny, F. E.
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