Shikar
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ʃɪˈkɑː/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shikar is a noun meaning (India) Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition.
Meaning
(India) Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition.
More Meanings
- (India, dated, ambitransitive) To hunt; to go hunting.
- Alternative form of shikari (“a hunter or tracker”)
Example Sentences
With us we had fifteen of the keenest and most cheerful hillman I have ever been associated with on a shikar.
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.
I became an immense favourite with the simple inhabitants of the country, who called me the Burra Feringhee Shikar, or great European hunter[.]
‘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.’
Word Forms
- shikars
- shikarring
- shikaring
- shikarred
- shikared
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chase, battue, sighter, cross-shot, stalking, bal-chatri.
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