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
The koppie to which he referred was a scarce discernible knoll on the horizon.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The stead where we lived in Natal was built under the lea of a projecting spur of the white-topped koppie, and over that spur runs a footpath leading to the township.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Henry Rider Haggard
