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shikarred

shikarred is the simple past and past participle 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 shikarred

What is shikarred the simple past and past participle of?
Shikarred is the simple past and past participle of shikar.

Words near shikarred in the dictionary

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

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