kloof
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kloof
1725–35; < Afrikaans; akin to cleave 2
Example Sentences
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One of them was ordered to act as sentry near the kloof, and bring back word at once should any movement take place.
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I remember how terrified I was at the Zuurberg that day, down the kloof, when you crashed through the bushes.
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They lived in a rough ‘hartebeest house’ of wattle and reeds in a magnificent kloof on a tributary of the Marico.
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Small boulders, cavernous hollows in the rocks, patches of brush at the head of the kloofs, at an elevation of two thousand feet, could be seen without difficulty.
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It flew just too high, fortunately, over the heads of the throng of burghers, and burst in the kloof behind them.
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