Kourbash

Word KOURBASH
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Definitions and meanings of "Kourbash"

What do we mean by kourbash?

A whip or strap about a yard in length.

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The word "kourbash" in example sentences

A kourbash is a strip of old hippo-hide with a sort of keel on it, like the cutting edge of a boar's tusk. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The guards extracted evidence against Urabi with thumbscrews and the kourbash. ❋ Dominic Green (2007)

“The kourbash has been going on my neighbors backs and feet all the morning,” recorded the émigré Scottish aristocrat Lucie Duff Gordon. ❋ Dominic Green (2007)

A revolt whose followers rebelled against the Turkish kourbash imposed its law through whippings, stonings, judicial mutilation, and public executions.42 ❋ Dominic Green (2007)

To collect taxes, they strung men and women upside down and beat the soles of their feet to a pulp with a kourbash. ❋ Dominic Green (2007)

Levying implausible taxes on the Sudanese, local administrators ruled through the kourbash, a long hippo-hide whip applied to the soles of the feet. ❋ Dominic Green (2007)

If he could strike two he would give the second to the old Arab who flogged women and children to death with the _kourbash_, [42] as an amusement, and whose cruelties were famous in a cruel land; the old Evil who hated, and plotted the death of, the fair Sheikh, with the leader of the expedition in order that they might divide his large share of the gun-running proceeds and German subsidy. ❋ Percival Christopher Wren (1913)

The lot of savages ruled by the knout, the kourbash, and the sjambok will be preferable to the lot of men ruled by starvation in the free Socialist Commonwealth of the future. ❋ J. Ellis Barker (1909)

His recovery, despite the unremitting attention of his nurse, was somewhat slow; the frightful mauling he had received from the cruel kourbash had done its work well, but at last his terrible lacerations began to heal. ❋ Charles Neufeld (1901)

This done, his hands and feet were fastened, and he was then thrown on the floor face downwards, while the bigger of his two custodians stood by, handling the deadly kourbash. ❋ Charles Neufeld (1901)

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