shikaran.
/ʃᵻˈkɑːrə/ A long, swift boat used in Kashmir. Also attributive.
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1875 F. Drew Jummoo & Kashmir viii. 181 A shikāri is the sort of boat that is in daily use with the English visitors; a light boat, manned..by six men, it goes at a fast pace.
1893 E. F. Knight Where Three Empires Meet iii. 35 Leaving our slow doongahs to follow us, we hailed some of the gondolas of Srinagur; long, swift canoes known as shikarahs, in which we reclined luxuriously on soft cushions.
1933 Discovery Nov. 348/2 A shikara or river taxi.
1964 V. S. Naipaul Area of Darkness iv. 103 Their shikara boats were a cluster of red and orange awnings and cushions; and in shikaras we were ferried over to the houseboats.
1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children i. 14 The thaw had come rapidly... Many of the small boats, the shikaras, had been caught napping.
1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children i. 16 He floated past the shikara moorings.
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