kopje
noun
a small hill.
koppie
-
a variation of
kopje.
Example Sentences
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The cell phone footage from the koppie, aired on Britain's Channel 4 television, shows a police officer lying on the ground behind a rock with his pistol drawn.
From Reuters ● Jan. 29, 2013
It is 16:13, and he might have been escaping from the cauldron of death that was the innermost circle of the weathered jumble of granite that was the remains of the koppie.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2013
The cellphone footage from the koppie, aired on Britain's Channel 4 television late on Monday, shows a police officer lying on the ground behind a rock with his pistol drawn.
From Reuters ● Jan. 29, 2013
While de boy’s a-yellin’ an’ a-yumpin’, an’ while de dogs is a-wakin’ an’ a-lookin’ out to see what’s it all about all dat time Klein Hahsie’s yust a-makin’ a brown streak round dat koppie.
From Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan
IV When Menzi and his company had departed, vanishing round the corner of the koppie, Thomas again asked the Chief where they were to sleep, an urgent matter as darkness was now approaching.
From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Henry Rider Haggard
