kopje
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kopje
1880–85; < Afrikaans, equivalent to kop kop + -je diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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They sit and socialize on the lower rocks of their high kopje, grooming one another with a sweet absorption, playing with their babies.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are feeding on the buds of an acacia tree not far from the granite kopje where they sleep.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Artillery made a detour to the right, secured a commanding position on a kopje, and from thence began a ten minutes’ cannonade which had the effect of silencing the Boers.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis
The troops marched out by the road skirting the kopje so gallantly stormed by the Guards, and moved over the veldt some few miles to the south-east, towards the Free State.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis
They were about three miles away from the town, and in a position different from that from which the guns had shelled the kopje in the morning.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus
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