sluit

[ sloot ]

noun
  1. (in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.

Origin of sluit

1
1860–65; <Afrikaans sloot<Dutch: ditch

Words Nearby sluit

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How to use sluit in a sentence

  • I crouched down in the sluit by the roadside and lay perfectly still—still as a hare—until the moon went in again.

    Aletta | Bertram Mitford
  • The Hottentot man put a leg of the kid under his coat and left the rest of the meat for the two in the sluit, and walked away.

    Dream Life and Real Life | Olive Schreiner
  • One day, in the course of a walk, John and Jess crossed the little bridge that spanned the sluit and went in to inspect the place.

    Jess | H. Rider Haggard
  • The course they were following ran down the side of one land wave, then across a little swampy sluit, and up the opposite slope.

    Jess | H. Rider Haggard
  • On the opposite side of the sluit from me a man staggered out from the trees—a white man—and fell.

    In the Whirl of the Rising | Bertram Mitford