Definitions for mahouts

mahouts ma·hout

Spelling: [muh-hout]
IPA: /məˈhaʊt/

Mahouts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in mahouts (ahmostu).

Definitions for mahouts

noun

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

Origin of mahouts

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

Examples for mahouts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for mahouts
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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