sjambok

[ sham-bok, -buhk ]

/ ʃæmˈbɒk, -ˈbʌk /

(in southern Africa) a heavy whip, usually of rhinoceros hide.

to whip with or as if with such a whip.

Origin of sjambok

1820–30; < Afrikaans s(j)ambok < Malay cambuk whip < Hindi cābuk

siècle, siècle d'or, sj, sja, sjaelland, sjambok, sjc, sjd, sjoe, sjælland, sjögren's syndrome

There was the sjambok I had forgotten still lying on the window sill.

Prester John |John Buchan
I exerted all my powers of persuasion to arrest the flight of my burghers; even bringing the sjambok into the argument.

Three Years' War |Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
They'll be here to-night, old De Wet says, and they're to come here and sjambok the Englishmen who've been talking too much.

From Capetown to Ladysmith |G. W. Steevens
Sibijaan drove the mules and swung his sjambok without mercy.

Adventures in Swaziland |Owen Rowe O'Neil

He got careless with his sjambok and flicked a tall Swazi warrior on a naked but important part of his anatomy.

Adventures in Swaziland |Owen Rowe O'Neil

sjambok

/ (ˈʃæmbʌk, in South Africa -bɒk) /

a heavy whip of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide

a stiff synthetic version of this, used in crowd control

(tr) to strike or beat with such a whip

C19: from Afrikaans, from Malay samboq, chamboq, from Urdu chābuk