Definitions for mahout

mahout ma·hout

Spelling: [muh-hout]
IPA: /məˈhaʊt/

Mahout is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in mahout (ahmotu).

Definitions for mahout

noun

  1. the keeper or driver of an elephant, especially in India and the East Indies.

Origin of mahout

1655-65; Hindi mahāut, variant of mahāvat; compare Prakrit mahāmatta, Sanskrit mahāmatra elephant driver

Examples for mahout

No; I think—yes, it is the mahout who rode into camp at the review.

Hard by the mahout was cooking his dinner under a tamarind-tree.

And my mahout could jab my ear as much as he chose—I refused to obey!

An elephant, from some motive of revenge, killed his mahout, or driver.

"The only problem to be solved, then, is where to find a mahout," he said in conclusion.

Then the mahout drew out an extra chapatie he had hidden in his clothes.

And the mahout passed into his hut with a shiver that told of the coming ague.

But the mahout had a large family and appropriated one of the cakes.

One, a mahout, or tender, straddled the neck to guide the creature.

It was the Raja's pleasure to officiate as mahout on these occasions.

Word Value for mahout
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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