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1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg xi. 162 There appeared two troops of Tartars, clothed in coats of tiger-skins.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 343/1 Jackets, turbans, and handkerchiefs, marked with the bubberee, or tyger stripe... The tyger stripe was the royal mark, and was peculiar to Tippoo and his family.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 58 He had..ridden a-tiger-hunting upon an elephant with the Nabob of Arcot.

1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India vii. 244 We remained for several days, on account of a tiger~hunt.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 358 He had enough of tiger~shooting in that one tiger.

1865 T. Seaton From Cadet to Colonel II. 26 There was no tiger-jungle within thirty miles of the spot.

1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 56 A pet tiger-cub in wreaths of rhubarb leaves, symbolical of India under medical treatment.

1895 Daily News 27 Nov. 6/3 At Shrovetide, 1509,..Princess Mary, afterwards Queen, wore a black mask as an Ethiopian queen, and a little jacket of tigerskin.

1906 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 778 The spears showed that a tiger-drive was contemplated, for across each, some eighteen inches below the point, a little piece of wood was lashed on at right angles to the shaft.

1931 E. A. Robertson Four Frightened People v. 178 This was tiger country, she knew, but she had never yet seen one of those animals.

1934 M. Mitchell Warning to Wantons x. 324 They were like two big game-hunters whose elaborate tiger-trap has netted..a domestic cat!

1936 T. S. Eliot Coll. Poems 153 The tiger in the tiger-pit Is not more irritable than I.

1970 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 8 July 5 a/3 Harkin said more than 200 men, crammed three to five in 86 5-by-8-foot tiger pits in one building, were unable to stand because they had been there so long.

1970 Guardian 8 July 1 (caption) Political prisoners peering up out of a ‘tiger cage’ in Con Son prison in South Vietnam.

1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions xxv. 369 Biju Ram would only have had to wait until they were in tiger country—preferably..where there was known to be a man-eater.

1980 N. Freeling Castang's City viii. 47 She was extremely sharp. One kept falling..into tiger traps full of pointed bamboo stakes. One got little out of her.

1982 Times 28 Sept. 3/4 (caption) An apprentice animal trainer, in the tiger cage with six Bengal tigers.