shambok
shambok is the alternative form of sjambok.
Meaning of sjambok
Noun
sjambok (plural sjamboks)
- 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
Forms of shambok
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | shamboks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | shamboks |
| present participle | shambokking |
| past participle | shambokked |
| past | shambokked |
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