agterslag, noun
- Forms:
- Also achter-slag, agterslaag.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, agter rear + slag whiplash.
The short section of whiplash joining the main thong of a whip to the strip of buck-hide forming the fine end (or voorslag).
[1850 R.G.G. Cumming Hunter’s Life I. 25The invariable whip..consisting of a bamboo pole upwards of 20 feet in length, with a thong of about 25 feet, to the end of which is sewn with ‘rhiem-pys,’ or strips of dressed steinbok-skin, the ‘after-slock,’ and to this again is fastened the ‘fore-slock’.]
1991 Best of S. Afr. Short Stories (Reader’s Digest Assoc.) 45A long handle of bamboo was attached to the ‘whip’, a cylinder of about 2,5m long often made of sable antelope or giraffe skin; next came the thong or agterslag, thinner and about a metre long; to it was tied a longer whiplash or voorslag, made of kudu or bushbuck hide.
The short section of whiplash joining the main thong of a whip to the strip of buck-hide forming the fine end (or voorslag).
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