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sambock

sambock is the alternative form of sjambok.

Meaning of sjambok

Noun

sjambok (plural sjamboks)

  1. (South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.
    • He learnt that he was a slave, in spite of all the petty airs he might assume, a slave shackled to a yoke, to be scolded when he lagged, flogged when he rebelled with the sjambok of the modern driver, Threat of the Sack.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, pages 25–6

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Forms of sambock

pluralsambocks

Questions about sambock

What is sambock the alternative form of?
Sambock is the alternative form of sjambok.

Words near sambock in the dictionary

  1. sambists
  2. sambo
  3. Samboan
  4. sambocade
  5. sambocades
  6. sambock
  7. sambocks
  8. samboe
  9. samboes
  10. Samboism
  11. sambok

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