sjambok

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1. South AfricaA stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.

   Several accusations had been brought in against her and every time she'd denied them she had been beaten with a sjambok.

   1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 113

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   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.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, pages 25–6

   Foppl stood holding a sjambok or cattle whip of giraffe hide, tapping the handle against his leg in a steady, syncopated figure.

   1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

   If dialogue is ever to have a chance, South Africans must find a way to turn away from violence in all its forms — the brutal violence of the sjambok

   1989, United States Congress Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs, United States Policy Toward South Africa: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on African Affairs, page 333

   Police arrested almost 40 locals yesterday after a crowd took part in illegal marches and refused to disperse. The locals were armed with sticks, sjamboks and other weapons.

   2006 May 13/14, Weekend Argus, page 1

present singular third person sjamboks · participle present sjambokking · participle past sjambokked · past sjambokked · alternative sambock · alternative sambok · alternative shambock · alternative shambok · alternative shambuck · alternative sjambock · alternative shambock · alternative shambok · alternative sjambock · alternative sjamboke

1. transitiveTo whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.