Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See sambur.

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  • noun Alternative form of sambar.

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Examples

  • For ornament there were a number of ‘Bonzo’ pictures, and the dusty skulls of sambhur.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • Leaving the elephants to graze freely the _mahout_ and his coolie disembowelled the _sambhur_ and hacked off the head with their heavy

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • He had calculated on getting another couple of _sambhur_ stags to present to the _Deb Zimpun_ as food for his hungry followers.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • In one such spot Wargrave's eye was caught by a flash of bright colour, and his rifle went half-way to his shoulder, only to be lowered again when he saw two _sambhur_ hinds, graceful animals with glossy chestnut hides, watching the advancing elephants curiously but without fear.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • Other tiger-skins had joined the first; and, although he had not secured a second bison, several good heads of _sambhur_, _khakur_ and _cheetul_, or spotted deer, hung on his whitewashed stone walls.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • "Hiven hilp ye av ye bring any _sambhur_ flesh to the Mess, Wargrave," said Burke.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • A broad-horned sambhur to be killed, worthy of your honor's strength! '

    The Lion of Petra Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Higher up the twenty-foot walls, heads of sambhur, markor, and the lesser deer of the Himalayas showed dimly in the light of one lowered lamp.

    The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

  • The sambhur lifted high his head again and spread the fan of one ear toward the wind, while one breathed twice.

    Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905

  • One dawn, from a distance he watched a sambhur buck pause on the brow of a hill.

    Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905

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