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n. A kind of safety platform in a tree used when hunting big animals such as tigers and leopards; found most commonly in Indian jungles.
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Machan is a 2008 Sri Lankan comedy film written, directed, and produced by Uberto Pasolini as his directorial debut about the fictional Sri Lankan National Handball Team that vanished in 2004.
Machan is an upcoming Tamil comedy film written and directed by Sakthi Chidambaram. The film features Ramesh Aravind, Vivek and Karunas in the lead roles and is expected to release in May 2015.
Machan is a state constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly since 1969.
The state constituency was created in the 1968 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly under the first past the post voting system.
Usage examples of "machan".
So they got permission for a mangled body to be left there, and built a machan near it.
The animal looked enormous in the uncertain light and each thought the machan too low and wished himself in his house in the village.
The heroes could barely descend from the machan, so stiff and aching were their bones.
Naini Tal the husband of the dead woman came to my sister Maggie and told her of the killing of his wife, and at crack of dawn next morning Maggie sent out some of our men to make a machan over the kill and to sit on the machan until I came, for I was expected to arrive that day.
Just as the machan was completed, a sportsman from Naini Tal, who was out on an ail-day shoot, arrived quite by accident at the spot and, saying he was a friend of mine, he told my men to go away, as he would sit up for the tiger himself.
From this spot the tiger had carried the body half a mile, to the tree on which the machan had been built.
Here, high up in a tree, we found the machan the three guns had sat on, and the kill the tiger had been eating when fired at.
Smythies was keen to shoot the tiger, so I went off with two of her men to put up a machan for her, and found that in the meantime the tiger had returned and dragged the cow twenty yards into the jungle.
Smythies and, after putting her into the machan with a forest guard to keep her company, I climbed a tree on the edge of the road hoping to get a photograph of the tiger.
From the way they kept looking to the left I concluded we were getting within sight of the machan, for it was now full daylight with the sun touching the tops of the trees.
Lying beside him and looking through the grass in the direction in which he was pointing we saw a machan, built in the upper branches of a big tree, between thirty and forty feet above ground.
The tree in which the machan was built was growing on the border of the tree and grass jungle and overlooked a wide expanse of open ground.
But it was there that I met Lela Machan, Nathan Riley, and George Hamner.
Gavin, as she moved to climb down from her machan to follow the animal.
After Marcus Junius Brutus left her bed, Lela Machan clapped her hands.