Meaning of shikar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition.
   India, countable, uncountable
2. A hunt.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Where other men took ten days to the Hills, Strickland took leave⟳ for what he called shikar, put⟳ on the disguise that appealed to him at the time, stepped down into the brown crowd, and was swallowed up for a while.”

“They climbed up the ladder, and he mounted shikar fashion, treading first on the sharp edge of the heel and then into the looped-up tail.”

“With us we had fifteen of the keenest and most cheerful hillman I have⟳ ever been associated with on a shikar.”

“I became an immense favourite with the simple inhabitants of the country, who called me the Burra Feringhee Shikar, or great European hunter[.]”

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