Crossword-Solution: MAHOUT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mahout | n. | The keeper and driver of an elephant. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “MAHOUT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Driver of an elephant | 1 answer |
| ELEPHANT driver | 1 answer |
| Elephant driver, to Kipling | 1 answer |
| Elephant keeper | 1 answer |
| Elephant keeper and driver | 1 answer |
| Elephant keeper, in India | 1 answer |
| Hindu elephant driver | 1 answer |
| Indian elephant keeper | 1 answer |
| Indian elephant trainer | 1 answer |
| Pachyderm driver | 1 answer |
| elephant driver Indian | 1 answer |
| Elephant man? | 2 answers |
| Rider | 40 answers |
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Sentences with MAHOUT (5)
Perkes, having been much more accustomed to riding than walking during his career as groom, was determined to ride the elephant down the pass; and he accordingly mounted, insisting at the same time that the mahout should put the animal into a trot.
Moreover, on the foremost elephant’s skull Hans was perched like a mahout, giving words of command to their serried ranks and explaining to them that it would be very convenient if they would carry their tusks, for which they had no further use, and pile them in a certain place—I forget where—that must be near a good road to facilitate their subsequent transport to a land where they would be made into billiard balls and the backs of ladies’ hair-brushes.
The mahout bores into the back of his head with a great iron prod and you wonder at his temerity and at the elephant's patience, and you think that perhaps the patience will not last; but it does, and nothing happens.
The mahout talks to the elephant in a low voice all the time, and the elephant seems to understand it all and to be pleased with it; and he obeys every order in the most contented and docile way.
Near the port we met three elephants, the centre one of great size, rolling along, one of them with a mahout seated behind his great flapping ears.
Quotes with MAHOUT (2)
An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback.
... it's all words and only words, and beyond the words there's nothing... a word, which, like all the others, can only be explained by more words, but since the words we use to explain things, successfully or not, will, in turn, have to be explained, our conversation will lead nowhere, the mistaken and the true will alternate, like some kind of curse, and we'll never know what's right and what's wrong. - subhro, the mahout, Pg. 49
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1979–2018).