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Definition of Ankus

Ankus
Ankus An"kus, n. [Hind., fr. Skr. a[.n]ku[,c]a.] An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] --Kipling.

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- (c2000: p. 237). In Rudyard Kipling's Second Jungle Book story "The King's Ankus", Mowgli finds the magnificently-jeweled elephant goad of the title in a...
- unfinished business with the crocodile. "A Ripple Song" (poem) "The King's Ankus": Mowgli discovers a jewelled object beneath the Cold Lairs, which he later...
- Anku (Quechua for tendon, nerve, slim (person), elastic, flexible, Hispanicized spelling Ango) is an archaeological site in Peru. It is situated in the...
- Ankou (Breton: /ɑːnkuː/ an Ankoù) is a servant of death in Breton, Cornish (an Ankow in Cornish), and Welsh (yr Angau in Welsh). Ankou appears as a man...
- Anku Pande (born Vishakhapatnam, 13 November 1970) is a film producer from Nainital, Uttarakhand in India. Pande has been responsible for introducing new...
- William Oscar "Willie" Anku (25 July 1949 – 1 February 2010) was a Ghanaian music theorist, ethnomusicologist, composer, and performer. His work combined...
- chins, and on their legs with metal-tipped prods, called bull hooks or ankus. Feld stated that these practices are necessary to protect circus workers...
- franchise. The film is produced by Siddharth Anand, Mamta Anand, Ramon Chibb, Anku Pande, Kevin Vaz and Ajit Andhare, under banners Viacom18 Studios and Marflix...
- most common tools used by ****uts are chains and the aṅkuśa (goad, also ankus or anlius) – a sharp metal hook used as guide in the training and handling...
- Chicken sickles (Chinese) Crowbill (European, Central Asian) Elephant goad, ankus, ankusha, bullhook, elephant hook (South and Southeast Asian) Hakapik (European)...