sjambokn.
/ˈʃambɒk/, U.S. /ʃæmˈbɑk/, /ˈʃæmˌbɑk/ A strong and heavy whip made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide, used in South Africa for driving cattle and sometimes for administering chastisement.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > goad
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > equipment
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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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β. 1791 E. Helme tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. (ed. 3) I. 195 My people were busied in cutting to pieces the hide of the hippopotamus, to make what the country folks call chanboc.1801 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. iii. 145 These sort of whips which they call shambos are most horrid instruments.1812 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. I. i. vii. 98 The skin is the only thing valuable to the colonists, to cut into strips for making the driving whips known here by the Malay name of Schamboks.1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 86 Some~times encouraged by good words, at other times terrified into exertion by ten blows of the shambok.1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 141 The cow-skin,..of the West Indies, or the shambuc of the Cape.1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches iv. 175 Large whips of rhinoceros and hippopotamus hide (termed sjamboks).1856 C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami 61 We also carried away a goodly supply of the beast's hide, for the purpose of converting it into ‘shamboks’.1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 99 To..take some of his hide for sjamboks.1911 L. Cohen Reminisc. Kimberley xviii. 320 ‘All right,’ he replied... ‘Bring me a shambok.’γ. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xxx. 281 Every ox had been most unmercifully flogged with both waggon-whips and jamboks.1867 M. Reid Giraffe Hunters II. xix. 225 The Makalolo were constantly wielding their huge ‘jamboks’ to induce them to go quicker.1790 E. Helme tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. I. xxi. 412 The next day my men employed themselves in cutting the skin off the Hippopotamus, to make what, in this country, the[y] call Chanboc, which are whips, used to drive the oxen.
1804 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 II. ii. 96 One of those infernal whips, made from the hide of a rhinoceros or sea-cow, known by the name of sambocs.
1808 J. Read in G. E. Cory Rise of S. Afr. (1921) I. vii. 203 Terribly flogged with a sambok or whip made of the skin of a rhinoceros.
1830 S. Bannister Human Policy 126 Sambocks of rhinoceros and sea-cow skins.
1842 R. Moffat Missionary Labours & Scenes S. Afr. vi. 86 On their punishing him with a shambock, he seized a gun.
1850 T. Shone Diary III. 19 Mar. in Voorloper (1976) 717 Lost my Samboc, the Horse Broke his bridle.
1852 M. B. Hudson S. Afr. Frontier Life I. 40 No coaxing nor threats, after sambok persuasion, Could cure him of sulks on the present occasion.
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ˈsjambok v. transitive to strike or flog with a sjambok.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > soundly or severely
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1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 756/1 To associate or have anything to do with blacks, except to make them work, or sjambook them if they don't work hard is an unpardonable offence in a Boer's eyes.
1894 E. Glanville Fair Colonist xv. 116 I would cheerfully sjambok a stock~lifter until he dropped.
1899 G. H. Russell Under Sjambok ix. 92 Then I will sjambok them first, and hang them after.
1900 Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 3/1 To be sjambokked within an inch of his life.
ˈsjambokker n. one who uses a sjambok.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips
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sjambokker1953
1953 Cape Times 30 Mar. 1/1 The sjambokker came outside and hit..Mr. Eddy..on the legs.
ˈsjamboking n.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging
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1899 G. H. Russell Under Sjambok xxxiv. 247 I have given him many a sjamboking.
'sjambokking n. also figurative.
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1908 D. Blackburn I came & Saw 208 Your sjambokking of Sixpence gave me the idea for the Humanitarian Company.
1953 Cape Times 30 Mar. 1/1 A police investigation into the alleged sjambokking of two United Party canvassers.
1980 Listener 17 Apr. 487/3 Lilford, landowner and power behind Smith and the Rhodesian Front, gave me a verbal sjambokking over the telephone.
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