Jackal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JACKAL in dictionary:

VERB:
• behave like a jackal
NOUN:
• an African carnivorous mammal related to the dog
• a slender long-legged wild dog that feeds on carrion, game, and fruit and often hunts cooperatively, found in Africa and southern Asia.
• doglike wild animal of Africa and Asia
• Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling.
• One who does mean work for another\'s advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated.
• Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a doglike mammal

Words related to JACKAL

jackalled23 jackalling24 jackals20

How to use JACKAL in a sentence

• The material was perhaps the wolf, more likely the jackal, but possibly a blend of more than one species.
• So the jackal went back to the Raja and received from him the knotted string that fixed the date of the wedding.
• The poor man did so and then hurried off to the jackal and told it how things had turned out.
• In gratitude to the jackal the owner of the cow bought a goat and gave it to the jackal and then the jackal went away and was seen no more.
• Every day the jackal used to lie in the sun on the top of a stack of straw.
• Once upon a time a jackal killed a kid in a village and taking it to a little distance began to enjoy a good meal.
• Then the jackal pretended to be sorry for the crows and invited them all to come and take shelter in his house.
• As the jackal went along with his swollen tail he met a potter going to market with earthern pots for sale.
• The next day the jackal came again and in the same way took off more meat.
• Then the jackal comforted them and told them not to be afraid as he would stay with them and protect them, and help them with their hunting.
• The jackal and the kite began to feast on all the good things that had been left in the houses.
• The tiger was treated in the same way as the bear had been and ran off without giving the jackal any information.
• A jackal presently came by and stopped to ask why he was digging the hole.
• The jackal gratefully ran away and returned with a number of other jackals.
• A jackal dog barked in the Oued Zaroud two miles away.
• Fritz jumped up the first, and ran for his jackal, which had stiffened in the cold of the night.
• After this, the little Jackal did not like to risk going near the water, so he ate no more crabs.
• Now the old Alligator found this out, and he made up his mind to have the little Jackal for supper, or to die trying.
• And the little Jackal was drowned, for his sins, but the Camel came safely home.
• But he is like his fellow workman, the jackal, cowardly to the last degree.
• And thou wouldst be the vulture? Thou wilt only be a jackal, eating what the lion leaves.
• When the Jackal saw him coming he was not very well pleased.
• Du Tillet flung the noble commercial carcass to the little jackal, that he might torment it as he devoured it.
• From far away there came the haunting cry of a jackal, but near at hand there was no sound.
• So for full thirty seconds they faced one another, speechless, spell-bound, while through the awful silence the cry of a jackal sounded from afar, seeking its meat from God.
• They are of a peculiarly hideous breed, closely resembling the jackal.

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