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Definition of Machans
1. machan [n] - See also: machan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machans
Literary usage of Machans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tiger-shooting in the Doon and Ulwar: With Life in India by John Cookson Fife-Cookson (1887)
"... her—Natives in machans—Use of phosphorus —BM wounds a tiger—We follow
up—Approaching wounded tigers—Good tracking. AFTER proceeding one or two marches ..."
2. Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa by Edward Bennet (1914)
"Bedding may be taken on to machans as well as to bomas, and an electric light
... For tiger, machans are put sixteen feet from the ground, but twelve feet ..."
3. Jungle By-ways in India: Leaves from the Note-book of a Sportsman and a by Edward Percy Stebbing (1911)
"Surrounded by this unique assemblage, all in the highest spirits, we started for
the machans. Half-way the beaters left us, and at about 1 pm we reached the ..."
4. The Diary of a Sportsman Naturalist in India by Edward Percy Stebbing (1920)
"The machans were again apportioned. The fiat went forth ! All ladies were to
either go with their respective husbands or fathers or with a senior male ..."
5. Thirty Years of Shikar by Edward Braddon (1895)
"I only saw one tiger killed in that district by machan-shooting, and on that
occasion, a lady being of the party, the machans were ten feet or less from the ..."
6. The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1897)
"And the centre of that circle was the village, and round the village the crops
were ripening, and in the crops sat men on what they call machans—platforms ..."
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