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Definition of Machan
1. Noun. A kind of safety platform in a tree used when hunting big animals such as tigers and leopards; found most commonly in Indian jungles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Machan
1. a raised platform [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machan
Literary usage of Machan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Church is called machan ... which machan signifieth, The Trinitie. Three miles
before wee came at ' m' the Church, the Prete commanded eight Horses well ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Church is called machan ... which machan signifieth, The Trinitie. Three miles
before wee came at eacem- the Church, the Prete commanded eight Horses ..."
3. Charters and Other Documents Relating to the City of Glasgow by Glasgow (Scotland), James David Marwick, Robert Renwick (1906)
"... of St. machan in the cathedral; and endowment of the same with certain tenements
and ... of St. machan, situated at the third pillar from the Rood loft, ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"X. Of the end of the Kingdome of Angote, and of the beginning of the Kingdome of
Amara, and of divers Lakes ; the Church machan ..."
5. The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's by Ontario High Court of Justice, Ontario, High Court of Justice (1898)
"machan 28 0. R. 642 662 Philbrick and Ontario and Quebec RW Pharmaceutical Society
of London v. Provincial Supply Association 5 App. Cas. ..."
6. Two Years in the Jungle: The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India by William Temple Hornaday (1885)
"machan Shooting.—Shooting on Foot.—An Impromptu Tiger-hunt.—The Trail.—A Light "
Battery."—The Game Overhauled.— A Good Shot.—Death of a Superb "Game-killer ..."
7. Jungle By-ways in India: Leaves from the Note-book of a Sportsman and a by Edward Percy Stebbing (1911)
"It contained a Meade's shell, and Bruin answered to the shot with a Saw a bear
bolting past my machan. growl, and appeared to climb the rocky hill like a ..."
8. And that Reminds Me, Being Incidents of a Life Spent at Sea, and in the by Stanley William Coxon (1915)
"... CHAPTER XXVIII Arrive at Bombay—Purchasing the nucleus of a stable—My first
shooting camp in Damoh—Dr. Quinn's language in the machan —Our globe-trotter ..."
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