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Bengal tiger   /bˈɛŋgəl tˈaɪgər/   Listen
proper noun
Bengal  n.  
1.
A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
2.
A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
3.
Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.
Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; called also blue light.
Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3.
Bengal tiger. (Zool.). See Tiger.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Bengal tiger" Quotes from Famous Books



... are found, though very rarely, two savage and carnivorous marsupials called the Tasmanian tiger and the Tasmanian devil. The tiger is almost as large as the female Bengal tiger, and has a few little stripes near its tail, from which fact it gets its name. The Tasmanian tiger will create fearful havoc if it gets among sheep, killing for the sheer lust of killing. At one time a price of L100 was put on the head of the Tasmanian tiger. ...
— Peeps At Many Lands: Australia • Frank Fox
... woman. You ain't never had any one to look out for your int'rests in this life. After this, it's me that does it. I don't want your money. I've got plenty of my own. But your interests bein' my interests after this, you hand ev'rything over to me, and I'll put a twist in the tail of that Bengal tiger in your fam'ly that 'll last him ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... the climate of Bengal, he did not anticipate much curling in India, and that he would miss the "roaring game"; in fact, the only "roaring game" he was likely to come in contact with would probably take the unpleasant form of a Bengal tiger springing out at him. Lord Lansdowne went on to say, "Let us hope that it will not happen that your ex-Governor-General will be found, not pursuing the roaring game, ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton


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