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shikaring

shikaring is the present participle and gerund of shikar.

Meaning of shikar

Verb

shikar (third-person singular simple present shikars, present participle shikarring or shikaring, simple past and past participle shikarred or shikared)

  1. (India, ambitransitive, dated) To hunt; to go hunting.
    • ‘I wish I could have made him a gun-boy. There's no fun in shikarring alone, and this fellow would have been a perfect shikarri. I wonder what in the world he is.’1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 198

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Questions about shikaring

What is shikaring the present participle and gerund of?
Shikaring is the present participle and gerund of shikar.

Words near shikaring in the dictionary

  1. shikaree
  2. shikarees
  3. shikargah
  4. shikargahs
  5. shikari
  6. shikaring
  7. shikaris
  8. shikarred
  9. shikarree
  10. shikarrees
  11. shikarri

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