Molopo

American  

[muh-loh-poh] / məˈloʊ poʊ /

noun

1. a river in S Africa, flowing SW along the S Botswana-N South Africa border to the Orange River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.

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Molopo British  

/ məˈləʊpəʊ /

noun

1. a seasonal river rising in N South Africa and flowing west and southwest to the Orange river. Length: about 1000 km (600 miles)

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Example Sentences

From the north, below the Vaal confluence, the Nosob, Molopo and Kuruman, intermittent streams which traverse Bechuanaland, send their occasional surplus waters to the Orange.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

On May 15 it was reported that the relief column under Mahon, who on that day joined Plumer at Massibi on the Molopo twenty miles from Mafeking, was approaching.

From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by

Mafeking is situated upon a rise about three hundred yards north of the Molopo River, and from time to time its history has been associated with military enterprises.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus

We had observed small, detached forces of Boers making from north and south of the town for the ridges about the western areas of the Molopo.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus

A little after daylight our advance patrols came in touch with the pickets of Colonel Plumer's camp, down in the valley of the Molopo River at Jan Massibi's.

From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Young, Filson