sjambok

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  1. noun A heavy whip, usually made of animal hide.
  2. transitive verb To hit or beat with a sjambok.

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  • The only thing I have got left now is a hippo sjambok, cut from a big bull my young brother Amyas shot; and yet few men in Mashonaland had more curios and horns through their hands. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • My curios went much the same way; there was always a ready demand for them; and the result was that, when I left Africa finally, I had nothing whatever left, save that one sjambok which I used to carry on my wrist. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • One also claims he was hit with a sjambok, kicked and had his hand tied to a chair during interrogations by the police.
  • Gold flashed in the sun as the sjambok descended. —  Witch-Doctors
  • Begone The black hand came up jerkily to the black forehead, shot away out and down; the polished calves moved like the eccentrics of an engine, and Corporal Inyira melted into the shadows Sergeant Schultz To smart heel taps on the verandah entered the sergeant You will see that Corporal Inyira and the escort leave before daybreak; moreover, that he talks with no one before he leaves Excellence Take a drink, sergeant With legs as stiff as his sjambok, Sergeant Schultz obeyed the order; lifted the glass and drank You may go! —  Witch-Doctors
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Afrikaans, from Malay cambuk, whip, from Hindi cābuk, from Persian chābuk, from Middle Persian.

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  1. Dutch sjambok, formerly also siamback, prob. taken up from Malayan servants at the Cape, from Jav. sambok, also chambok, nasalized forms of the Malay chābuk, from Hindustani chābuk, whence English chabouk, q. v.
  2. sjambok, n.
 

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