kop
noun
a hill.
kop
1 American
[kop]
/ kɒp /
noun
kop.
2
American
abbreviation
kop
British
/ kɒp /
noun
Etymology
Origin of kop
1825–35; < Afrikaans: literally, head, hence high or top part. See cop 3
Example Sentences
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The Rání was very wise and clever, for she had a book, which she read continually, called the kop shástra; and this book told her everything.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous
There were not many dead or wounded to be seen; but burghers who had been stationed on the high kop previously mentioned had seen the English remove their wounded during the engagement.
From Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
The huts were built in a wide ring round a compound full of bush and big trees, and the whole camp was pitched half-way up the slope of the biggest kop.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
If we went to the left we could only advance 2,000 paces before being visible to the English on the kop close to Hopetown, from where they could make known our movements by heliograph.
From Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
Another wild dog appeared on the cone-shaped kop.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
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