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- noun Plural form of
shikari .
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Examples
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In the caravanserais of Bokhara and Samarkand he is known, and there are shikaris in the Pamirs who still speak of him round their fires.
Greenmantle 2005
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Ahmed Bot, however, was of opinion that all sahibs who wanted sport required two shikaris, so I imagined that while I was to be engaged with one in pursuit of bara singh, the other would employ himself in "rounding up" a few tigers for the next day's sport in another direction.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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The beaters are going in; and the _shikaris_ (hunters) tell me that the _nullah_ swarms with pig.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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I once met a Midgan on trek who showed me the unmistakable claw-marks of a lion on his camel's neck and shoulders and said he had used the animal on three such occasions; compared with these desperate encounters the exploits of our white shikaris armed with powerful modern rifles are insignificant.
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An hour later Brown's shikaris found the place where Dubois-Desaulle had strayed from the column, followed his trail through the bush hither and thither for two miles, to a point where he had found a native warrior seated beneath a tree.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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Emerging from the pines, we crossed a grassy slope covered with tall primulas (P. _denticulata_) of varying shades of mauve and lilac, and sat down for a bit among the flowers while the shikaris looked for game.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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This may be so, but Kashmir shikaris have remarkably vivid imaginations.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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Breakfast under the same tree, sitting on the same patch of rose-coloured flowers -- a sort of fumitory (_Corydalus rutaefolia_) -- followed by another nine-hour bivouac, brought us to 5 P.M. and the extreme limit of boredom, when lo! the shikaris burst upon us in a state of frenzied excitement to announce the bear!
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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So, while the shikaris unceasingly spied for bear, for nine mortal hours
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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Arrived, I found the _Sahib_ and about a dozen men, _shikaris_ and pony men, surrounding a dense mimosa thicket no more than thirty or forty yards in diameter.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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