Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurbashed
Literary usage of Kurbashed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"We saw a man kurbashed because, after working like a slave in a gang of twenty
men trying to cut a bank, the work could not keep pace with the rising water, ..."
2. The British Empire Series (1899)
"If he could not pay he was kurbashed, so, to save himself, was driven to accept
the usurer's terms, which were about sixty per cent., and the loan would be ..."
3. Court Life in Egypt by Alfred Joshua Butler (1887)
"When 1 heard the story, the boys had been two months in prison, and were kurbashed
periodically to forward their confession. ..."
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