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Elephant goad used by mahouts
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ankus
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ankus \An"kus\, n. [Hind., fr. Skr. a[.n]ku[,c]a.] An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] --Kipling.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The hooked goad that is used in India to control elephants.
Usage examples of ankus.
It was a three-foot ankus, or elephant-goad—something like a small boat-hook.
But this'—he lifted the ankus—'I desire to take away, that I may see it in the sun.
They will kill, and kill, and kill for its sake My strength is dried up, but the ankus will do my work.
Good hunting' Mowgli danced off, flourishing the great ankus, and stopping from time to time to admire it, till he came to that part of the Jungle Bagheera chiefly used, and found him drinking after a heavy kill.
Mowgli told him all his adventures from beginning to end, and Bagheera sniffed at the ankus between whiles.
Close to the fire, and blazing in the sunshine, lay the ruby-and-turquoise ankus.
This'—he handled the ankus gingerly—'goes back to the Father of Cobras.
In 1516 he was in command at Goa during the absence of Governor Lopo Soares at the Red Sea, between the months of February and September, and during that period attacked the Bijapur troops at Ponda, which were commanded by Ankus Khan, with some success (Barros, Dec III.
He was ten years old, the eldest son of Big Toomai, and, according to custom, he would take his father's place on Kala Nag's neck when he grew up, and would handle the heavy iron ankus, the elephant-goad that had been worn smooth by his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather.
Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden sticks, crying, 'Room for the King's elephant!
Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden sticks, crying, "Room for the King's elephant!
As he watched, the mahout gave a low command, reinforced with a jab behind the ear from his ankus, or goad.