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• kop
  kop

  noun

  a hill.
• kop.
  kop.

  abbreviation

  kopeck.

kop

¹ American  

[kop] / kɒp /

noun

1. a hill.

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kop. ² American  

abbreviation

1. kopeck.

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kop British  

/ kɒp /

noun

1. a prominent isolated hill or mountain in southern Africa See inselberg

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Etymology

Origin of kop

1825–35; < Afrikaans: literally, head, hence high or top part. See cop ³

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kop

On the following morning, the 20th of July, I let the commando go on, whilst I stayed behind to reconnoitre from a neighbouring kop.

From Three Years' War by De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf

Our way led past the kop to the south of Nicholson's Nek.

From Three Years' War by De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf

Then I pushed on an’ on till I went over a ridge into another kloof, an’ through that to another kop, standing up above the wood in a mass of stone.

From Tales from the Veld by Glanville, Ernest

Another wild dog appeared on the cone-shaped kop.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

And this we did, and were sufficiently fortunate to capture the northern point of the kop.

From Three Years' War by De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf