mahout

• The word mahout comes from the Hindi words mahaut and mahavat, derivatives of the Sanskrit word mahamatra, meaning "[one] having great measure." —  Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed
• Then he admitted Alec to his friendship, and they became pals Hard by the mahout was cooking his dinner under a tamarind-tree Did the Sahib ask if he was clever? —  Adventures in Many Lands
• The worst of it is, they can see you For as he was speaking, the first elephant had gone, as it were, straight into the solid green wall of verdure, and disappeared Now then, Trousers," cried Frank What do you call the mahout Trousers for?" —  The Rajah of Dah
• I hope there is nothing wrong A word or two in Hindustani from the doctor to the mahout, and our elephant began to shuffle toward the one coming, for Brace had gone on at once Our elephant made a good circuit to avoid the dead tiger, holding his trunk high, and evidently in doubt as to whether the beast was feigning death; and directly after we were close up to the messenger, whom I saw to be Denny, the man who had come over in the Jumna_, and whose sweetheart I had jumped overboard to save What is it, Denny? —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
• No man could prevent That mahout was a violent man. —  Son of Power

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