chicoten.
/tʃiːˈkəʊteɪ/ A long whip of leather or hide, having a wooden handle, used in the Congo, the former Portuguese colonies of Africa, and elsewhere.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > of hide
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1903 Daily Chron. 10 July 6/5 The fearful whip made of hippopotamus hide, and called the chicotte, and with which the natives in all parts of the Congo are so familiar.
1906 Nevinson Mod. Slavery iii. 55 Her back scored all over with the cut of the chicote.
1928 Daily Express 28 Nov. 9 Corporal punishment, or ‘chicotte’, now exists only in the Congo army.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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