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Sjambok - What does it mean?

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sjambok

English

Alternative forms

* (noun) shambok, sambok * (verb) sjamboke

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.
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  • *1979 , , 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 .
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    • See also

    * knout * quirt * whip *

    Verb

  • To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.

    • References

    * 1989-1990, South African Department of Information (Apartheid era), South Africa 1989-90: official yearbook of the Republic of South Africa , volume 15 (1989; ISBN: 0797017291 and 9780797017290). Page 74: "bobotie, kiaal, sjambok, sosatie from Malay". * 1983, Robert Ross, Cape of Torments: slavery and resistance in South Africa. International library of anthropology (Routledge, 1983; ISBN: 0710094078 and 9780710094070) * 1978, Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English * 1971, Roy Lewis, Yvonne Foy, Painting Africa white: the human side of British colonialism (Universe Books, 1971, ISBN: 0876631448 and 9780876631447) * 1883, JKW Quarles van Ufford, Koloniale kroniek - De Economist (Springer, [http://www.springerlink.com/index/Y355777718348115.pdf)

    Anagrams

    * * South African English

    Not English

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