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 Various

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.

Archive 2005-07-01 ps 2005

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 ps 2005

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

Adventures in Many Lands Various

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. Various

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 Thomas Carson

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 1884

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 1884

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

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