Obs. Also chaubac, -buck. [a. Pers. and Urdū chābuk horse-whip: see CHABOUK.] A whip; flogging with a whip. (In India.)
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 98 (Y.). He has a Black-Guard that by a Chawbuck, a great Whip, extorts Confession.
1756. in Long, Rec. Bengal, 79 (Y.). The Nabob … threatened their Vaquills with the Chaubac.
1784. Song, in Seton-Karr, Sel. Calc. Gaz., I. 18 (Y.).
| With Muskets and Chaubucks, secure, | |
| They guard us in Bangalore Jail. |
