Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy whip, usually made of animal hide.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A heavy whip of leather or hide.
- To strike with a sjambok.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A stout whip, especially made of
rhinoceros orhippopotamus hide. - verb transitive To whip with a sjambok; to
horsewhip .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They had lived in a land where the sjambok was the symbol of progress.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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The sjambok is the Baas 'cure for the traitor, and sometimes it kills to cure.
The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897
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The sjambok is the Baas 'cure for the traitor, and sometimes it kills to cure.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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They had lived in a land where the sjambok was the symbol of progress.
The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897
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Instead of using a "sjambok" smokers should be exhorted not to smoke and shown the dangers in and consequences of such a habit.
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"I do not know his name, but I heard one of the Boers say, 'That slim duyvel with the sjambok is the new Military Commandant.'
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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On inquiring how he came to get such a tremendous thrashing, it turned out that these Basutus have a custom of sending young men of a certain age [+] out in couples, each armed with a good "sjambok" (a whip cut from the hide of a sea-cow), to thrash one another till one gives in, and that it was in one of these encounters that the intelligent Scowl got so lacerated; but, as he remarked with a grin, "_My_ back is nothing, the chiefs should see that of the other boy."
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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"sjambok" serves as "a little bit of medicine" to cure the culprit,
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Johnson's promised fuller analysis is now in development, with a Telegraph column suggesting that something subtler than police "sjambok drubbings" may be required.
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"I'll give you sjambok, my lady!" growls I, and lifted her bodily out of the swing, but even as I cast about for galloping room, she left off gnawing at me and panted: "Wait ... let me show you!"
THE NUMBERS 2010
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