Definition of Kurbash

1. Noun. A whip or strap about a yard in length. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kurbash

1. to flog with a leather whip [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurbash

kunsthalles
kunstleroman
kunya
kunyas
kunzite
kunzites
kupcikite
kupfernickel
kupffer cells
kupletskite
kupuna
kupunas
kurakkan
kuramite
kuranakhite
kurbash (current term)
kurbashed
kurbashes
kurbashing
kurchatovite
kurchatovium
kurchee
kurchi
kurchi bark
kurdaitcha
kurdaitcha man
kurdaitchas
kurfuffle
kurfuffles
kurgan

Literary usage of Kurbash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"The kurbash was the thong of hippopotamus-hide with which all offenders and non- offenders were punished by being flogged on the soles of their feet. ..."

2. In the Land of the Pharaohs: A Short History of Egypt from the Fall of by Duse Mohamed (1911)
"Now as to the kurbash. ... in 1883, when through his instrumentality the kurbash had been abolished by ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The use of the kurbash for such purposes, once common in Egypt, has been abolished by the British authorities. KURDISTAN, in its wider sense, the " country ..."

4. The Nineteenth Century (1884)
"Heaven knows I am no advocate of the kurbash. I am no believer in the theory that the fellaheen can only be ruled by the bastinado. ..."

5. Egypt and the Egyptian Question by Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1883)
"State might be given, I believe, by every Mudir in the country: " If you ask me officially," he said, " whether the use of the kurbash is abandoned, ..."

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