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‖ sjambok, n.|ˈʃæmbɒk|
Also 8 chanboc(k), 9 samboc, sambock, sambok, schambok, shambo, shambok, sjambock, jambok.
[a. Cape Du. sam-, tjam-, sjambok, a. Malay samboq, chamboq, ad. Urdū chābuk: see chabouk and chawbuck.]
A strong and heavy whip made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide, used in South Africa for driving cattle and sometimes for administering chastisement.
α1790E. Helme tr. Le Vaillant's Trav. Interior Parts 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. 1804J. Barrow Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. ii. 96 One of those infernal whips, made from the hide of a rhinoceros or sea-cow, known by the name of sambocs. 1808J. 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. 1830S. Bannister Hum. Policy 126 Sambocks of rhinoceros and sea-cow skins. 1842Miss Moffat Tour S. Africa vi. 86 On their punishing him with a sambock, he seized a gun. 1850T. Shone Diary III. 19 Mar. in Voorloper (1976) 717 Lost my Samboc, the Horse Broke his bridle. 1852M. B. Hudson S. African Frontier Life I. 40 No coaxing nor threats, after sambok persuasion, Could cure him of sulks on the present occasion.
β1791tr. Le Vaillant's Trav. Interior Parts Afr. I. 195 My people were busied in cutting to pieces the hide of the hippopotamus, to make what the country folks call chanboc. 1801J. Barrow Trav. S. Afr. iii. 145 These sort of whips which they call shambos are most horrid instruments. 1812A. Plumptre tr. Lichtenstein's 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. 1822W. 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. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. iv. 175 Large whips of rhinoceros and hippopotamus hide (termed sjamboks). 1856Andersson Lake Ngami 61 We also carried away a goodly supply of the beast's hide, for the purpose of converting it into ‘shamboks’. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 99 To..take some of his hide for sjamboks. 1911L. Cohen Reminisc. Kimberley xviii. 320 ‘All right,’ he replied... ‘Bring me a shambok.’
γ1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Africa (1902) 144/2 Every ox had been most unmercifully flogged with both waggon-whips and jamboks. 1867Mayne Reid Giraffe Hunters II. xix. 225 The Makalolo were constantly wielding their huge ‘jamboks’ to induce them to go quicker.
Hence ˈsjambok v. trans., to strike or flog with a sjambok. Hence ˈsjambokker, one who uses a sjambok; ˈsjamboking, -bokking vbl. n.: also fig.
1881Blackw. 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. 1894E. Glanville Fair Colonist xv. 116, I would cheerfully sjambok a stock⁓lifter until he dropped. 1899G. H. Russell Under the Sjambok ix. 92 Then I will sjambok them first, and hang them after. Ibid. xxxiv. 247, I have given him many a sjamboking. 1900Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 3/1 To be sjambokked within an inch of his life. 1908D. Blackburn I came & Saw 208 Your sjambokking of Sixpence gave me the idea for the Humanitarian Company. 1953Cape Times 30 Mar. 1/1 A police investigation into the alleged sjambokking of two United Party canvassers. Ibid. The sjambokker came outside and hit..Mr. Eddy..on the legs. 1980Listener 17 Apr. 487/3 Lilford, landowner and power behind Smith and the Rhodesian Front, gave me a verbal sjambokking over the telephone. |