Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
koorbash .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
kurbash .
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Examples
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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.
Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900
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“The kourbash has been going on my neighbors backs and feet all the morning,” recorded the émigré Scottish aristocrat Lucie Duff Gordon.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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“The kourbash has been going on my neighbors backs and feet all the morning,” recorded the émigré Scottish aristocrat Lucie Duff Gordon.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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To collect taxes, they strung men and women upside down and beat the soles of their feet to a pulp with a kourbash.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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The guards extracted evidence against Urabi with thumbscrews and the kourbash.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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To collect taxes, they strung men and women upside down and beat the soles of their feet to a pulp with a kourbash.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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The guards extracted evidence against Urabi with thumbscrews and the kourbash.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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A revolt whose followers rebelled against the Turkish kourbash imposed its law through whippings, stonings, judicial mutilation, and public executions.42
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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Levying implausible taxes on the Sudanese, local administrators ruled through the kourbash, a long hippo-hide whip applied to the soles of the feet.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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Levying implausible taxes on the Sudanese, local administrators ruled through the kourbash, a long hippo-hide whip applied to the soles of the feet.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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