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单词 shikar
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shikarn.

/ʃɪˈkɑː/
Forms: Also 1600s sikar, 1700s shekar.
Etymology: Urdu (from Persian) shikār.
Anglo-Indian.
Hunting; sport (shooting and hunting); game. on shikar, on a hunting expedition, out hunting.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun]
huntethc900
huntingc1000
sleatinga1122
purchasec1325
veneryc1330
venation1386
venison1390
the chase?a1400
chasing?a1400
waithc1400
huntc1405
vanchasea1425
enchase1486
vaunt-chase1575
field sport1580
shikara1613
huntsmanshipa1631
cynegetics1646
sport of kings1735
game hunting1823
blood sport1893
the world > food and drink > hunting > [adverb] > out hunting
on shikar1944
a1613 W. 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.
1800 Duke of Wellington Let. to T. Munro 2 Mar. in Dispatches (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’ Lays of Ind (1876) 181 They talked..Of divers local matters, acting, racing, and shikar.
1886 R. Kipling To Unknown Goddess in Departm. Ditties 2 A victim of crafty and cautious shikar.
1944 J. Corbett Man-eaters of Kumaon 186 Of all the men I have been on shikar with Ibbotson is by far and away the best.
1955 Times 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.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.
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1872 E. Braddon Life in India v. 181 He is free to spend his days in the saddle or on the shikar ground.
1883 Ld. Saltoun Scraps II. 175 A pair of light cord or dungaree breeches, and long yellow sambur-skin boots, complete the shikar costume.
1883 Ld. Saltoun Scraps II. 241 Followed by my shikar-cart.
1896 B. M. Croker Village Tales 4 About a dozen shikar parties have been got up for his destruction.
1896 B. M. Croker Village Tales 72 You may have the shikar camel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

shikarv.

/ʃɪˈkɑː/
Etymology: < shikar n.
a. intransitive. To hunt animals for sport.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)]
huntc1000
chasec1320
sporta1635
to go out1749
shikar1872
1872 ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1876) 155 You may divert your mind with much shikarring.
1905 A. I. R. Glasfurd Rifle in Indian Jungle 344 The more or less hilly country in which the writer has shikar'd.
b. transitive. To hunt (an animal). Also transferred.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)]
huntc1000
chasec1330
teisec1400
work1568
drive1622
call1768
rattle1829
shikar1882
1882 E. A. Floyer Unexplored Baluchistan 58 My camel was very ‘musty’, and I involuntarily ‘shikarred’ three unfortunate individuals whom we met on the road, to their great terror.
1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Dec. 808/2 A pretty green lizard used to come every forenoon, shikarring ants and other insects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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