Meaning

(India) Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition..

Definitions by Sense

1. (India) Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition.
2. A hunt.
3. Alternative form of shikari (“a hunter or tracker”)
4. (India, dated, ambitransitive) To hunt; to go hunting.

Example Sentences

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[.]

‘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

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When Should You Use Shikar?

Use shikar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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