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sambok

sambok 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 sambok

pluralsamboks

Questions about sambok

What is sambok the alternative form of?
Sambok is the alternative form of sjambok.

Words near sambok in the dictionary

  1. sambock
  2. sambocks
  3. samboe
  4. samboes
  5. Samboism
  6. sambok
  7. samboks
  8. sambol
  9. samboo
  10. sambook
  11. sambooks

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