sjambok
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈʃæmbɒk/
sjambok (plural sjamboks)
- (South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, chapter II, pp. 25-6,
- He learnt that he was a slave, in spite of all the petty airs he might assume, a slave shackled to a yoke, to be scolded when he lagged, flogged when he rebelled with the sjambok of the modern driver, Threat of the Sack.
- 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, page 113:
- Several accusations had been brought in against her and every time she'd denied them she had been beaten with a sjambok.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, chapter II, pp. 25-6,
sjambok (sjamboks, present participle sjambokking; past and past participle sjambokked)
- (transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.
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