koorbash

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One man sat on his back and one on his legs, the latter holding up his feet, while a third laid on the bare soles a rhinoceros-hide koorbash

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  1. A whip of hippopotamus- or rhinoceros-hide, used in Egypt and other parts of Africa. He tried the argument of an unlimited application of the koorbash — in this case a frightfully thick thong of hippopotamus-hide. E. Sartorius, In the Soudan, p. 129.
  2. To beat with a koorbash.

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  • One man sat on his back and one on his legs, the latter holding up his feet, while a third laid on the bare soles a rhinoceros-hide koorbash —  The Innocents Abroad
 

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  1. Also kourbash, and formerly coorbash, coorbatch; from Arabic kurbāj, from Turk, qirbāch, kirbāch, a whip, a scourge.
  2. from koorbash, n.
 

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