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▪ I. shikar, n. Anglo-Ind.|ʃɪˈkɑː(r)|
Also 7 sikar, 8 shekar.
[Urdū (from Persian) shikār.]
a. Hunting; sport (shooting and hunting); game. Phr. on shikar, on a hunting expedition, out hunting.
a1613W. Finch in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 430 What⁓soeuer is taken in this inclosure, is called the Kings Sikar or game, whether men or beasts. 1800Wellington Let. to T. Munro 2 Mar. in Gurwood Disp. (1834) I. 42 These [horsemen] divided into two or three small parties..would give a proper shekar; and I strongly advise you not to let the Marhatta boundary stop you in the pursuit of your game when you shall once have started it. 1872‘Aliph Cheem’ (Yeldham) Lays of Ind (1876) 181 They talked..Of divers local matters, acting, racing, and shikar. 1886Kipling Departm. Ditties, etc. To Unknown Goddess 2 A victim of crafty and cautious shikar. 1944J. Corbett Man-Eaters of Kumaon 186 Of all the men I have been on shikar with Ibbotson is by far and away the best. 1955Times 14 May 10/5 His service in the Indian Army and his periods of leave, which were almost invariably spent on shikar, developed his eye for country and his taste for natural history.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1872E. Braddon Life India v. 181 He is free to spend his days in the saddle or on the shikar ground. 1883Ld. Saltoun Scraps II. 175 A pair of light cord or dungaree breeches, and long yellow sambur-skin boots, complete the shikar costume. Ibid. 241 Followed by my shikar-cart. 1896B. M. Croker Village T. 4 About a dozen shikar parties have been got up for his destruction. Ibid. 72 You may have the shikar camel.
▪ II. shikar, v.|ʃɪˈkɑː(r)|
[f. prec.]
a. intr. To hunt animals for sport.
1872‘Aliph Cheem’ (Yeldham) Lays of Ind (1876) 155 You may divert your mind with much shikarring. 1905A. I. R. Glasfurd Rifle in Ind. Jungle 344 The more or less hilly country in which the writer has shikar'd.
b. trans. To hunt (an animal). Also transf.
1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluchistan 58 My camel was very ‘musty’, and I involuntarily ‘shikarred’ three unfortunate individuals whom we met on the road, to their great terror. 1883Chamb. Jrnl. 22 Dec. 808/2 A pretty green lizard used to come every forenoon, shikarring ants and other insects. |
