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1. boma, n. View full entry 1878
...An enclosure or stockade used for herding beasts and for defensive purposes....
2. cheesa, n. View full entry 1915
...Used attrib., esp. in cheesa stick (see quots.)....
3. kierie, n. View full entry 1731
...A short club or knobbed stick used (esp. in the past) as a weapon by the indigenous peoples of South Africa. See also knobkerrie...
4. mbube, n. View full entry 1948
...A style of male choral music, usually unaccompanied, which combines traditional Zulu song with American gospel music, and is often performed to slow, synchronized dance movements patterned after Zulu regimental dancing. Freq....
5. panga, n.3 View full entry 1929
...Esp. in East Africa and South Africa: a large, heavy knife with a long, broad blade, used for cutting undergrowth and firewood or as a weapon....
6. posho, n.1 View full entry a1873
...Daily rations given to soldiers, sailors, labourers, porters on safari, etc....
7. quilombo, n. View full entry 1861
...In Angola: a fortified residence or encampment; (also) the political or military institution associated with this. Now hist....
8. simba, n. View full entry 1918
...A lion. Also fig., a warrior; a leader....
9. simi, n. View full entry 1955
...In East Africa: a large knife; a short two-edged sword (see also quot. 1980)....
10. trombash, n. View full entry 1867
...A kind of boomerang used by the Sudanese. Also fig....
11. zombie, n. View full entry 1819
...In the West Indies and southern states of America, a soulless corpse said to have been revived by witchcraft; formerly, the name of a snake-deity in voodoo cults of or deriving from...
