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Definition of Chabouk
1. n. A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.
Definition of Chabouk
1. a type of whip [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chabouk
Literary usage of Chabouk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses: The Narrative of Twelve Months by Fanny Taylor (1857)
"... English, madama, plenty money, plenty sovereigns—caique]ee chabouk home,
madama, give him more shillings." " chabouk (make haste), then, ..."
2. Western India in 1838 by Marianna Postans (1839)
"The chabouk, or Lash, ... con^ tinental, or colonial politics; the Parsee journal
treats principally of commerce; the news of the chabouk and the ..."
3. Researches in the Highlands of Turkey: Including Visits to Mounts Ida, Athos by Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1869)
"... which expression was an enigma to us at first; but when he went on to say that
the Turkish guard who accompanied them echoed it by “chabouk, ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"sjambok, chabouk; see LASH. 3. See SNAP. whip, vt 1. beat (contextual),
scourge (rhetorical or spec.), swinge, flagellate (tech. or learned); spec, switch, ..."
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