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shikarring

shikarring 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 shikarring

What is shikarring the present participle and gerund of?
Shikarring is the present participle and gerund of shikar.

Words near shikarring in the dictionary

  1. shikaris
  2. shikarred
  3. shikarree
  4. shikarrees
  5. shikarri
  6. shikarring
  7. shikarris
  8. shikars
  9. Shikasta Nasta'liq
  10. shikepoke
  11. shikepokes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shikarring (page history and authors); shikar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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