| 释义 |
‖ machan|mʌˈtʃɑːn|
Also 9 muchán, mucharn.
[Hindi machān.]
An elevated platform; a scaffolding erected to watch for a tiger, etc.
1886Yule Hobson-Jobson, Muchán. 1887J. C. Fife-Cookson Tiger Shooting 41 W. at once arranged for a machan, or platform, to be made in a neighbouring tree from which he could watch the kill. 1890S. W. Baker Wild Beasts I. 153 Branches..so arranged as to form a screen that will conceal the watcher... This arrangement is called a ‘mucharn’. 1902Speaker 6 Sept. 600/2 We struggle up the ravine to our machans or rather the trees they are to be slung in. |