The kukri is a traditional Nepalese large knife, which is carried by Gurkha soldiers. |
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He was about to cut his finger on the kukri he kept on his desk for the blood needed in the spell when he noticed something. |
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Another jemadar prowled, revolver in one hand, primed grenade in the other, and kukri clenched between his teeth. |
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And who can forget Jatayu in his film Sonar Kella brandishing a kukri? |
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On her ankle was a slight bulge where she kept a kukri hidden. |
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In 2009, an estimated 250,000 animals were killed by men wielding traditional curved kukri knives during an event which attracted up to a million worshippers to the town 60 miles from Kathmandu. |
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Oxford dons did more in a practical way to people the empire with good chaps who knew how to face down a fellow with an assegai or kukri in his hand. |
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The types include the wavy-bladed Malayan kris, the short, curved kukri used by the Gurkhas, the Hindu katar with its flat triangular blade, and innumerable others. |
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To end the first day of the event, thousands of buffaloes enclosed in a compound surrounded by a high wall, are decapitated by a group of specially chosen men using curved kukri knives. |
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One of the most respected steel weapons is that of the Gurkhas called a Kukri. |
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