kurbash

It gives me great pleasure to beat women with this kurbash."

The use of the kurbash for such purposes, once common in Egypt, has long been abolished.

Most of them had felt Camacho's boots or his kurbash, and they hugged one another happily.

He must suffer a hundred blows with the kurbash."

The land was ruled by bayonet and kurbash, the vicious hippo-hide whip.

He gave the stallion a cut across the rump with the kurbash, and al-Buq jumped forward.

Al-Noor hefted the kurbash in his right hand.

In North Africa, particularly Egypt, the whip was called a kurbash, after the Arabic for whip.

Before noon the following day Camacho, with a great deal of shouting and swishing of the kurbash, marched a hundred strong healthy men into the camp.

Pereira suddenly hauled a man out of the line and hit him a lusty clout across the back of the head with the stock of his kurbash.

It seemed to Penrod that these were becoming more savage each day, as though by the kurbash, the firing squad and the noose he could delay the fall of the city.

"Government by kurbash" denotes the oppression of a people by the constant abuse of the kurbash to maintain authority, to collect taxes, or to pervert justice.