Wiktionary
n. A short-horned Indian antelope.
Usage examples of "nilghai".
The pig are feeding near the Kanye river now, because they will not feed with the nilghai, and one of their sows has been killed by a leopard in the long grass at the water-head.
The nilghai has his custom and his use, and a child knows that pig will not feed with him.
Sahib will sit here very still I will drive one nilghai up to this place, and by listening to the sounds carefully, the Sahib can tell whence that nilghai has been driven.
The noise increased--crash on crash, plunge on plunge--with the thick grunting of a hotly pressed nilghai, flying in panic terror and taking no heed to his course.
It was a bull nilghai, dripping with dew--his withers hung with a torn trail of creeper, his eyes shining in the light from the house.
A man who can drive nilghai would know more about the rukh than fifty men.
Und you say now dot your thief-servant did not say what drove der poney, and of course der nilghai he could not speak.
Therefore I drove the nilghai for the foolish young Sahib, and the big fat mare for the big fat Sahib, when they questioned my power.