blesbok
Americannoun
-
blesboks,
plural
-
blesbok
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of blesbok
1815–25; < Afrikaans, equivalent to Dutch bles blaze 2 + bok buck 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Upon seeing a herd of blesbok, he stopped the vehicle and said, “Pffttt,” in the animals’ direction.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
Suddenly I observed a number of vultures seated on the plain about a quarter of a mile ahead of us, and close beside them stood a huge lioness, consuming a blesbok which she had killed.
From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn
The aasvogels follow me, and I can hear the blesbok.'
From Prester John by Buchan, John
He wished he had never set eyes upon a blesbok.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
Such is the colour of the bontebok, and that of the blesbok differs from it only in the points already mentioned, and in its colours being somewhat less marked and brilliant.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
As the blesboks came under the lee of each hill that covered a hunter, they suddenly swerved, and swept round him at such a distance as to render shooting at them a perfectly ridiculous thing.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
Towards this angle the blesboks were directing their course!
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
It was plain that the blesboks ran in the “wind’s eye,” else they never would have “run the gauntlet” against Klaas and Jan, as they had done.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
The spoor of the hunt guided him in a direct line; for the blesboks, it will be remembered, ran all the while to windward, thus following a straight course.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
Groot Willem had levelled his roer for a chance shot, when he thought of the unpleasant consequences of a “miss;” and reluctantly bringing down his piece he permitted the blesboks to sweep past.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
