Definition of "kourbash" []

• Alternative spelling of kurbash. (noun)

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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."
• "The guards extracted evidence against Urabi with thumbscrews and the kourbash."
• "Levying implausible taxes on the Sudanese, local administrators ruled through the kourbash, a long hippo-hide whip applied to the soles of the feet."