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yak
Part of Speech: noun
Results: 2
1. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
2. A bovine mammal ( Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.
Examples of usage:
- The missing yak herd. - "The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island", Roger Thompson Finlay.
- On, on we trudged across a plateau of snow, having the great mountains on our right, till at length the yak gave a sigh and stopped. - "Ayesha The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed", H. Rider Haggard.
- But stay, there is the yak, who also has claims upon our charity, and, turning, he struck upon a gong or bell which hung within the door. - "Ayesha The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed", H. Rider Haggard.