sjambok

American  

[sham-bok, -buhk] / ʃæmˈbɒk, -ˈbʌk /

noun

1. (in southern Africa) a heavy whip, usually of rhinoceros hide.

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verb (used with object)

1. to whip with or as if with such a whip.

sjambok British  

/ ˈʃæmbʌk, -bɒk /

noun

1. a heavy whip of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide

2. a stiff synthetic version of this, used in crowd control

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verb

1. (tr) to strike or beat with such a whip

Etymology

Origin of sjambok

1820–30; < Afrikaans s ( j ) ambok < Malay cambuk whip < Hindi cābuk

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Example Sentences

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sjambok

I thought, maybe, there was some stray cattle beyond, and I set off after him with the sjambok.

From Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville

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

Across the scrub and veld Dick pointed with his sjambok to the white Outspreading tent, then to the wattle belt That marshalled thinly in the shimmering light.

From Provocations by Sibyl Bristowe

Then he pointed with his riding-whip, a neatly varnished sjambok, with a smart silver top, to the north-west.

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan

Lord Islington described this as "perilously near forced labour;" His Grace of Canterbury facetiously suggested that the chiefs' idea of influence would be the sjambok; and Lord Emmott talked of "Prussianism."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman

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