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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Hind.

chābuk

horsewhip.]

A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.

Balfour.

chabuk ‎(plural chabuks)

(now historical) A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the the Middle East.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 98:
  Shut your mouths and get back to work or I'll whip you with my own chabuk.
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