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- noun Plural form of
naboot .
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Examples
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They beat up five tars from HMS Superb with naboots, stabbing one to death, and attacked merchant sailors from the SS Tanjore.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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When the Mustafezzin heard shooting, they broke out their stocks of wooden naboots, passing them from the windows of their police stations to mobs of irate Bedouin.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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They beat up five tars from HMS Superb with naboots, stabbing one to death, and attacked merchant sailors from the SS Tanjore.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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When the Mustafezzin heard shooting, they broke out their stocks of wooden naboots, passing them from the windows of their police stations to mobs of irate Bedouin.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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They beat up five tars from HMS Superb with naboots, stabbing one to death, and attacked merchant sailors from the SS Tanjore.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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When the Mustafezzin heard shooting, they broke out their stocks of wooden naboots, passing them from the windows of their police stations to mobs of irate Bedouin.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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Then the throng of beggars dropped back under the pelting blows from heavy _naboots_ in the hands of _kavasses_.
The Lighted Match Charles Neville Buck 1904
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Twenty ghaffirs went ahead with their naboots; then came the kavasses, then the Mudir mounted, with Dicky riding beside, his hand upon the holster where his pistol was.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Renshaw was restive under the hands that were laid on his arm, and the naboots that threatened him.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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That dangerous temper, which would have let Dicky, whom he called friend, and himself go down under the naboots of the funeral multitude, with a "Malaish" on his tongue, was now in leash, ready to spring forth in the inspired hour; and the justification need not be a great one.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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