Sekirov Dictionary

shikar

/ʃɪˈkɑː/

noun 2
verb 1
forms 5

noun2

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(India) Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition.
- 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. — 1924
•
A hunt.
- With us we had fifteen of the keenest and most cheerful hillman I have ever been associated with on a shikar. — 1954

verb1

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(India, old-fashioned) To hunt; to go hunting.
- ‘I wish I could have made him a gun-boy. There's no fun in shikarring alone, and this fellow would have been a perfect shikarri. I wonder what in the world he is.’ — 1893

forms

shikared · shikarred · shikaring · shikarring · shikars

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