shikari

plural shikaris · alternative dated shecarry · alternative dated shekarry · alternative dated shickaree · alternative dated shikaree · alternative dated shikarree · alternative dated shikarri

1. A hunter or tracker, especially in the Indian subcontinent.

   "I'll stake my good name as a shikarree," said he, "that the track is a fresh one."

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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   ‘And if thou art not a shikarri, where didst thou learn thy knowledge of the tiger-folk?’ said he. ‘No tracker could have done better.’

   1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 196

   I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive so old a shikari,’ said Holmes.

   1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House, Norton, published 2005, page 807

2. historicalA shooting-boat used in the Kashmir lakes.