noun
- plural of sjambok: heavy leather whips traditionally used in South Africa
Usage: South African
verb
- third person singular present of sjambok: to beat with a sjambok
Usage: South African
Examples
- The museum displayed several historical sjamboks from the colonial period.
- Police officers once carried sjamboks as standard equipment.
- The leather sjamboks were made from rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.
- He sjamboks the cattle to move them along the path.
- Traditional sjamboks were about four feet long.
- The guard sjamboks anyone who tries to escape.