单词 | kurbash |
释义 | kurbashn. A whip made of hide, esp. that of the hippopotamus; formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Turkey, Egypt, and the Sudan. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > of hide tarleather1566 plet1781 cow-skin1789 sjambok1790 kurbash1814 chabouk1817 cowhide1818 hide1851 kiboko1898 chicote1903 1814 W. Brown Hist. Propagation Christianity II. 40 A Corbage, which consists of a strap of the skin of the hippopotamus, about a yard in length. 1842 R. R. Madden United Irishmen I. xi. 337 Persons subjected to the torture of the ‘courbash’, in Damascus. 1866 E. Lott Harem Life Egypt II. 90 I soon after heard stifled cries, and a cracking of the courbache. 1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 189 It is the peculiar mission of the hippopotamus to supply Kurbashes for the backs of the natives. 1885 Mrs. E. Sartorius In the Soudan viii. 129 An unlimited application of the koorbash. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 11 Aug. 107/3 To plead urgently for the abolition of the kurbash. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kurbashv. transitive. To flog with the kurbash. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > soundly or severely scourge1297 bebreech1617 horsewhip1768 cart-whip1788 knout1790 stripe1843 quirt1846 kurbash1850 blacksnake1864 bullwhip1876 sjambok1881 1850 Punch's Alm. for 1851. 7 He [the Persian Prince] had one of his attendants courbashed or flogged yesterday. 1884 Clifford Lloyd in Times 30 June 8/2 The Mudir had seized 77 sheikhs and other respectable men,..and had kourbashed and tortured them all. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1814v.1850 |
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