sjambock

Boers in Dutch, suiting the action to the word by giving the near wheeler a sharp cut with his riding _sjambock_ that made him jump nearly out of the traces.

Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890

But he could not abandon beauty in distress, so, finding it impossible to control his horse, he slipped off it, and with the _sjambock_ or hide-whip in his hand valiantly faced the enemy.

Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890

But I do know that if anyone had lifted a sjambock on me I should have answered with a bullet.

Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Mouti, bending forward over the splashboard, thrashed the wheelers with a _sjambock_.

Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890

As he came down he dropped the _sjambock_ from his hand, and I laid hold of it and then and there gave him the soundest hiding a man ever had.

Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890

At first Swart Piet did not seem to feel the blows, but presently he awoke, as it were, and touched his cheeks where the sjambock had struck him as though to assure himself that he was not dreaming some evil dream.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Feeling the grip of his arms loosen, Ralph freed himself, and running to the sjambock snatched it from the ground.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

"No, there was nothing but a sjambock, a very thick sjambock, in his hand."

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Then Suzanne rode in among the reeds, shouting and singing, and beating them with her sjambock in order to disturb anything that might be hidden there.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The latter avoided the blow by jumping behind John, with the result that the tip of the _sjambock_ caught the Englishman on the leg.

Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890