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
As things turned out, however, it made all the difference in the world, for if he had not accompanied us, my shikar would in all probability have ended disastrously next day.
From The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Frederick Courteney Selous
But a curious bit of shikar fell to my lot one day.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
I drew him out on the subject of big-game shooting, of which few men living knew more, and listened with interest to his tales of shikar.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
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 Percival Christopher Wren
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
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
Out shikarring and sprained his ankle, I suppose.
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren
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