† chawbuckn.
Obsolete.
A whip; flogging with a whip. (In India.)
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge
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1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 98 He has a Black-Guard that by a Chawbuck, a great Whip, extorts Confession.
1756 in Long Rec. Bengal 79 The Nabob..threatened their Vaquills with the Chaubac.
1784 Song in W. S. Seton-Karr & H. D. Sandeman Select. Calcutta Gaz. I. 18 With Muskets and Chaubucks secure, They guard us in Bangalore Jail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† chawbuckv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To flog with a chawbuck; to whip.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge
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1682 W. Hedges Diary 2 Nov. (1887) I. 45 The next day [he] was beat on ye Soles of his feet, ye third day..Chawbuct.
1699 Let. to E. India Comp. 23 Mar. To be tyed up and chawbucked.
1726 in Wheeler Hist. India II. 410 Another Pariah he chawbucked 25 blows.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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