disselboom

/ ˈdɪsəlˌbʊəm /

noun

from Afrikaans dissel shaft + boom beam

You can hardly take up a paper anywhere without seeing a paragraph headed ‘The Disselboom again.’

“Now I am ready,” he said, rising and strolling over to the waggon, where he seated himself on the disselboom.

Then we all went, leaving Henri Marais still cutting up his tobacco on the disselboom.

Slipping quickly over the driver's seat, he dropped between the two "wheelers" to the disselboom, or tongue, of the trek wagon.

The oxen are not yet made fast to the disselboom for the night, and one of my natives is away to collect them.

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