disselboom
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of disselboom
from Afrikaans dissel shaft + boom beam
Example Sentences
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Slipping quickly over the driver's seat, he dropped between the two "wheelers" to the disselboom, or tongue, of the trek wagon.
From Real Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis
Just as they were approaching the water, the disselboom broke in half, and rendered the waggon quite unmanageable.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
I sat down on the black veldt by the spring, and gazed at the charred axles and disselboom of my waggon, and I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, I felt inclined to weep.
From Hunter Quatermain's Story by Henry Rider Haggard
“Now I am ready,” he said, rising and strolling over to the waggon, where he seated himself on the disselboom.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
It was a highly ornamented, springless vehicle of wood and gilded, something like a packing-case with a pole, or as we should call it in South Africa, a disselboom, to which the horses were harnessed.
From The Ancient Allan by Henry Rider Haggard
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