Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The keeper and driver of an elephant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the East Indies, the keeper and driver of an elephant.
- n. A coarse woolen cloth formerly manufactured in England and in the south of France, exclusively for export to the seaports of the Mediterranean, and particularly to Egypt.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. East Indies The keeper and driver of an elephant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the driver and keeper of an elephant
Etymologies
- Hindi (mahāut), from Sanskrit (mahāmātra, "high official"), from (mahā, "great") + (mātra, "measure") (Wiktionary)
- Hindi mahāvat, mahāut, from Sanskrit mahāmātraḥ, one having great measure, mahout : mahā-, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots + mātram, measure (from mimīte, mā-, he measures; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word mahout comes from the Hindi words mahaut and mahavat, derivatives of the Sanskrit word mahamatra, meaning "[one] having great measure.”
“What do you call the mahout Trousers for?" asked Ned.”
“Its scarlet howdah was empty; its trappings were scarlet; the mahout was a Shan.”
“These men, perched as they are on the elephant's neck, carry their lives in their hand, for should the tiger be wounded only, he will certainly make a spring for the elephant's head, and then the mahout is a dead man.”
“It was always slipping forward or backward, and as I was heavier than the Malay lad, I was always slipping down and trying to wriggle myself up on the great ridge which was the creature's backbone, and always failing, and the mahout was always stopping and pulling the rattan ropes which bound the whole arrangement together, but never succeeding in improving it.”
“The mahout is the fellow that sits on the elephant's neck and conducts him.”
“Kingsley William, 41, suffered cuts to his arm, head and ear when the elephant trainer and guide, known as a mahout, attacked him with a hook used for controlling elephants in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.”
“(noun) A mahout is a person who drives an elephant.”
“First came the elephant, very lazy and stately -- gorgeously caparisoned now, with a gaily attired "mahout" upon his neck.”
“First came the elephant, very lazy and stately – gorgeously caparisoned now, with a gaily attired "mahout" upon his neck.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mahout’.
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Humours of Old Bombay
Terms that call to mind British India.
palkee, chee-chee, dorian, Hindoo, dinghee-wallah, garee, hamal, banghy, hookah-bardar, dak, ghat, mussalchee and 133 more...
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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Vanity Fair
sunshiny, equipage, wherry, affidavit, gimcracks, nabobs, palanquin, toxophilite, psha, superabundant, pomatums, finikin and 128 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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ndicharry's Words
moribund, treacly, [treacle], hubris, mediagenic, imbroglio, draconian, consentient, inkhorn, contravene, antediluvian, dogmatic and 9 more...
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Gentlemen of the Road
Vocab from "Gentlemen of the Road" by Michael Chaban
shatranj, myna, buskins, bambakion, filigreed, caravansary, temerity, calumny, keening, mahout, daub, rheumy and 23 more...
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