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Definition of mahout
: a keeper and driver of an elephant
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Not long ago, mahouts prodded their working elephants to help push trucks free of muddy quagmires on the road.
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On the outskirts of Jaipur’s Pink City, an elephant trudged along a paved highway into town, carrying its mahout – minder – and a huge stack of grain on its flanks.
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One post was about a temple elephant named Vedakkumnathan Ganapathy who killed his mahout.
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Many of those involved with the elephants are men—the mahouts, presumably those who own the temples, the captors.
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When the elephants come out of their musth, the mahouts believe the elephants have forgotten their commands.
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In India, a mahout is someone who rides an elephant.
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Origin and Etymology of mahout
Hindi & Urdu mahāwat, mahāut
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