sjambok

1. (South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.Examples: "He learnt that he was a slave, in spite of all the petty airs he might assume, a slave shackled to a yoke, to be scolded when he lagged, flogged when he rebelled with the sjambok of the modern driver, Threat of the Sack."; "Foppl stood holding a sjambok or cattle whip of giraffe hide, tapping the handle against his leg in a steady, syncopated figure."; "Several accusations had been brought in against her and every time she'd denied them she had been beaten with a sjambok."South-Africa