blesbok
Americannoun
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blesboks,
plural
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blesbok
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of blesbok
1815–25; < Afrikaans, equivalent to Dutch bles blaze 2 + bok buck 1
Example Sentences
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Upon seeing a herd of blesbok, he stopped the vehicle and said, “Pffttt,” in the animals’ direction.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
They had learnt by their experience of yesterday how to “jäg” the blesbok.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
Our young yägers had now arrived in the land of the blesbok and bontebok.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
If the blesbok were changing ground, I believed that the hunters were calling out their hounds and getting ready for the chase.
From Prester John by John Buchan
Game was abundant here, but though they could have shot eland, koodoo, blesbok, gemsbok, quagga, hartebeeste, zebra, and gnu, they had not seen elephant or giraffe, and these latter were in the boys’ minds continually.
From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Henri Théophile Hildibrand
Mr. Gumming thus describes an innumerable herd of blesboks which he encountered in the plains of Africa.
From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
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 Mayne Reid
I’ve seen skins taken off blesboks and wildebeestes full of holes.
From A Dash from Diamond City by F.A. Stewart
How, then, were they going to approach the blesboks, that they had heard were any thing but stupid—on the contrary, were exceedingly shy and watchful of danger?
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
Quagga, Bonte quagga, black wildebeest, elands, hartebeest, ostrich, springboks, blesboks.
From Tales of South Africa by H.A. Bryden
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