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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mahout washes down his charge.
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At first the difficulty was with the mahouts rather than the koonkies.
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It probably depends on the mahout who rides and works them.
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Most mahouts, though sadly not all, value their elephants too highly to ill-treat them.
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She'd read that when an elephant has a wound, the mahout squirts chilli juice in its eyes by way of distraction.
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The mahout , as he gives a command, reinforces the order with leg pressure just as if riding a horse.
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The drawing was of an infuriated male elephant about the charge a little mahout or elephant driver.