machan

• “We had a "machan" (platform) in a tree made, and at three o'clock in the afternoon I climbed up with my native shikari or hunter and watched and waited until dark.”

  Adventures in Many Lands

• “Not too long ago, in a wildlife park near the scenic town of Albany, New Hampshire, the police pulled out a 45-year-old man from the septic tank under a public toilet in a park, his chosen machan for peering at women's backsides.”

  Pervert's Progress

• “I climbed back into the machan, to watch the development of events.”

  Adventures in Many Lands

• “After dinner, at dusk, as Mr Jukes was strolling round the house smoking a cigar, a man with a long spear came up to him, and began to turn him back with an earnest speech, of which the only word he understood was _machan_; but it was an important one, and the point of the whole oration, for it is the Javanese for tiger.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.

• “After hours of weary, cramped waiting in the machan the beautiful creature had slipped noiselessly through the undergrowth and emerged into the clearing.”

  The Sheik

• “If keen enough, one could sit all night on a machan in a tree near a recent "kill," on the chance of”

  Ranching, Sport and Travel

• “The hours dragged along slowly; Shafto, doubled up in a cramped position on a _machan_, felt painfully stiff and was obliged to deny himself the comfort of a cigarette.”

  The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma

• “This was an extraordinary _thakin_, who, at the very climax of the tiger hour, climbed out of the _machan_ and liberated the bait!”

  The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma

• “Boa machan the point is that whatever ... good luck to petes .. the side looks g ...”

  Kottu

• “In Belgaum, she stayed with a family who had moved there to do farming more than 20 years ago, who gave her four options for 'Type of Accommodation' - a machan, a tribal hut, a village home, or their farm property.”

  The Hindu - Front Page

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