chibuk

They fill my chibuk, light it with a flint and steel, and cotton dipped in a solution of gunpowder, and pass it over to me. 6

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The lady Maryam soundly rated her surly son for refusing to fill her chibuk for the twelfth time that morning, with the usual religious phrases, “Allah direct thee into the right way, O my son!” — meaning that he was going to the bad, and “O my calamity, thy mother is a lone woman, O Allah!” — equivalent to the European parental plaint about grey hairs being brought down in sorrow to the grave.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

We then mounted a carriage, fought our way through the donkeys, and in half an hour found ourselves, chibuk in mouth and coffee-cup in hand, seated on the diwan of my friend

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Once a Wahhabi stood in front of us, and by pointing with his finger and other insulting gestures, showed his hatred to the chibuk, in which I was peaceably indulging.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

In the bazaars, in the caravanserais, in the streets, in the houses, where under ordinary circumstances every man puffed away at a _kalian_, a _chibuk_ (small pocket-pipe) or cigarette, not a single soul could be seen smoking for days and days.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

5 Civilians usually stick one pistol in the belt; soldiers and fighting men two, or more, with all the necessary concomitants of pouches, turnscrews, and long iron ramrods, which, opening with a screw, disclose a long thin pair of pincers, wherewith fire is put upon the chibuk.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

1 The long pipe which at home takes the place of the shorter chibuk used on the road.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003