sjambok
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
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a heavy whip of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide
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a stiff synthetic version of this, used in crowd control
verb
Etymology
Origin of sjambok
1820–30; < Afrikaans s ( j ) ambok < Malay cambuk whip < Hindi cābuk
Example Sentences
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It was the day that Rudyard Byng drove Krool into Park Lane with the sjambok.
From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker
Krool was about to shrug his shoulders, but his glance fell on the sjambok, and he made an ugly gesture with his lean fingers.
From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker
The sjambok dear to the Boer soul is that made out of rhinoceros hide.
From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales
Her glance suddenly caught a sjambok lying along two nails on the wall.
From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker
From all accounts the Boer went about with the Bible in one hand and the sjambok in the other, instructing himself assiduously with the Word, while asserting himself liberally with the deed.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Louis Creswicke
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