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African whip
Answer for the clue "African whip ", 7 letters:
sjambok
Word definitions for sjambok in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The sjambok or litupa is a heavy leather whip . It is traditionally made from an adult hippopotamus (or rhinoceros ) hide, but is also commonly made out of plastic . A strip of the animal's hide is cut and carved into a strip long, tapering from about thick ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide. vb. (context transitive English) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.
Usage examples of sjambok.
Foppl stood holding a sjambok or cattle whip of giraffe hide, tapping the handle against his leg in a steady, syncopated figure.
From the height of a man on horseback a good rhinoceros sjambok used properly can quiet a nigger in less time and with less trouble than it takes to shoot him.
He tapped her lightly on the rear with his sjambok and the moment, whatever it had meant, was over.
Below, dancing about the body and flicking its buttocks with a sjambok, was old Godolphin.
Godolphin, keeping time with the sjambok, launched quaveringly into a reprise of Down by the Summertime Sea.
I daresay Andrew used his sjambok, for a backveld Dutchman can never keep his hands off a Kaffir.
From the height of a man on horseback, a good rhinoceros sjambok used properly can quiet a nigger in less time and with less trouble than it takes to shoot him.
Walking among huddled forms in the evening, distributing blankets, food and occasional kisses from the sjambok, you felt like the father colonial policy wanted you to be when it spoke of Vaterliche Zuchtigung: fatherly chastisement, an inalienable right.
Todd and Sue, tacitly, in face of the search for Charlie Sjambok, had forgotten their idea of going home.
I hear you talking after lights out again, my sjambok will also talk to all of you, you hear?
Mevrou had had her sjambok she would have made fat old Harry Crown bend over the counter and she would have given him six of the best.
And then, after twenty years of failure, I find it in the chain gangs, in the rhythm of a pick and the sweat of black backs and the vicious crack of the sjambok and the almost noiseless thud of the donkey prick.
Meanwhile, the black South Africans prepared to bend their backs to the sjambok and for the invention of a new game where they voluntarily fell on their heads from the third storey of police headquarters to the pavement below.
That the Draka would bring the rule of plantation and compound, impaling stake and sjambok to the European heartlands of Western civilization, was unthinkable.
With a touch of the stubby whip he called a sjambok, he directed his Ham bearers to carry him closer to Malenfant.