Dingaan

British  

/ ˈdɪŋɡɑːn /

noun

1. died 1840, Zulu chief (1828–40), who fought the Boer colonists in Natal

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Example Sentences

Transferred to Jim Best in Lewes, the seven-year-old is back at seven furlongs now and, with blinkers fitted in an attempt to sharpen him up, he looks a more trustworthy conveyance than main rival Dingaan.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2010

The Zulu warriors advanced and retired, shaking their assagies and knob-kerries with threatening gestures, the chief Dingaan watching the effect upon his guests.

From Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)

Retief, too, will make good terms with Dingaan, and that will enable us to live here quietly.

From Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)

The Zulu chief Dingaan gradually recovered his defeat, and recruited his army; but being bent on the destruction of the emigrants, he proceeded cunningly to discover what they were doing.

From Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)

The Boers accordingly made overtures to Dingaan, Chaka's successor, who resided at his kraal on the White Umvolosi, a hundred miles distant in Zululand, for the right to trek into this country.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin