sluit
(in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
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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 MitfordThe 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 SchreinerOne 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 HaggardThe 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 HaggardOn 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
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