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Definition of Sjamboks
1. sjambok [v] - See also: sjambok
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sjamboks
Literary usage of Sjamboks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. With a policeman in South Africa by Ernest W. Searle (1900)
"V Tugela Amusements—The "Donga" Pigeon-coup—A Buck Hunt—"Pauw" Shooting—Boer
Marksmen- sjamboks—A Black Queen—Vaccinating the Blacks —A Midnight Race and ..."
2. Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa: Being the Narrative of the Last by Frederick Courteney Selous (1893)
"Well ! in 1883, hippopotamus hide sjamboks being in great demand in the Cape ...
into sjamboks ; thinking, of course, that the king would not hear of it. ..."
3. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"For up-country use the strips are " brayed" to a softer consistency, and furnish
ox-whips and riding sjamboks of terrible punishing power. ..."
4. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"For up-country use the strips are " brayed" to a softer consistency, and furnish
ox-whips and riding sjamboks of terrible punishing power. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"There was great rejoicing at the camp that night, and for the next few days much
feasting and a great making of sjamboks* out of the thick hide. ..."
6. Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce Bryce (1900)
"They know how to handle wire and twist it round the handles of the sjamboks (whips
of hippopotamus hide). But. having few wants and no ambition, ..."
7. Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce Bryce (1900)
"They know how to handle wire and twist it round the handles of the sjamboks (whips
of hippopotamus hide). But having few wants and no ambition, ..."
8. A Modern Slavery by Henry Woodd Nevinson (1906)
"But they left two long chicotes or sjamboks (hide whips) hanging on the trees,
as well as the very few light loads they had with them. ..."
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