Then the two men settled back on the springy, woven floor of the machan to a wait in the mysterious night of a tropical jungle.
Nobody shoots over it, so that entices the animals; but Prince Ananda has a roomymachan there with an electric light in it.
A low, purring note carried to the machanfrom the cave mouth.
The boom of a gun sounded drowsily from down in the plains, some native, sitting up in a machan to guard his jowari or sugar cane, had fired his old muzzle-loader to frighten away greedy jungle pigs or bison.
A light bamboo ladder, strapped to the pipal, led to a machan that was hidden by a constructed wall of twigs and grass, through which were little openings that afforded a view of the pool.
So they got permission for a mangled body to be left there, and built a machan near it.
Some climbed the machan and discovered their victim.
The animal looked enormous in the uncertain light and each thought the machan too low and wished himself in his house in the village.
In the course of time, the dog and other animals began to multiply, and man imitated their example; the woman brought forth a male child, whose name was Machan Buntu.
After many years, the woman gave birth to a female child who, when she was well grown, married her brother Machan Buntu and gave birth to seventy children at one time.
If, perchance, the ships have to lay up for the winter, even if they are the ships of the inhabitants of Machan themselves, they have to pay without any remission.
One is surprised at the cheapness of these things in Machan since they are brought from España to Goa, and thence to China, a distance of more than one thousand leguas.
It is sold among the Portuguese at Machanfor seven or eight taes, according to its quality.
The Portuguese pay anchorage at Machan according to the beam and length of their ships, and whether they enter light or laden.
If the sportsman can procure baits, a good plan is to select a good place for a machan before tying up; tether lightly so that the tiger may drag the carcase away.
Make the machan when the first bait is taken, tie up again till he kills again in the same place, and about three days after the second kill tie up again and sit over it.
The best machan is a cot with low rails round the edge, fitted with ropes to sling it in a tree.
They were apparently safe, each in a machan set in a tall tree.
He climbs into themachan at sunset, and waits till the tiger comes to drink at some time between the dark and the dawn, when a fortunate shot will put an end to the marauder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "machan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
