Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In tiger-shooting, a high platform or some device to protect and conceal the hunter while he is watching for the tiger. The machan is usually built in a tree and is concealed by the branches.
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- noun A kind of safety
platform in a tree used whenhunting big animals such astigers andleopards ; found most commonly in Indianjungles .
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Examples
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We had a "machan" (platform) in a tree made, and at three o'clock in the afternoon I climbed up with my native shikari or hunter and watched and waited until dark.
Adventures in Many Lands Various
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Not too long ago, in a wildlife park near the scenic town of Albany, New Hampshire, the police pulled out a 45-year-old man from the septic tank under a public toilet in a park, his chosen machan for peering at women's backsides.
Archive 2005-07-01 ps 2005
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Not too long ago, in a wildlife park near the scenic town of Albany, New Hampshire, the police pulled out a 45-year-old man from the septic tank under a public toilet in a park, his chosen machan for peering at women's backsides.
Pervert's Progress ps 2005
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I climbed back into the machan, to watch the development of events.
Adventures in Many Lands Various
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After dinner, at dusk, as Mr Jukes was strolling round the house smoking a cigar, a man with a long spear came up to him, and began to turn him back with an earnest speech, of which the only word he understood was _machan_; but it was an important one, and the point of the whole oration, for it is the Javanese for tiger.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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After hours of weary, cramped waiting in the machan the beautiful creature had slipped noiselessly through the undergrowth and emerged into the clearing.
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If keen enough, one could sit all night on a machan in a tree near a recent "kill," on the chance of
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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The hours dragged along slowly; Shafto, doubled up in a cramped position on a _machan_, felt painfully stiff and was obliged to deny himself the comfort of a cigarette.
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This was an extraordinary _thakin_, who, at the very climax of the tiger hour, climbed out of the _machan_ and liberated the bait!
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Kottu kottu 2010
hernesheir commented on the word machan
A tree-stand from which to ambush a tiger. Unless Tiger got there first and is waiting in the tree.
February 6, 2013
bilby commented on the word machan
Appears semantically related to Javanese macan, tiger. Javanese has a lot of Sanskrit borrowings.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word machan
Nice, bilby. Thanks!
February 6, 2013