sloot

British  

/ sluːt /

noun

1. a ditch for irrigation or drainage

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Etymology

Origin of sloot

from Afrikaans, from Dutch sluit, sluis _sluice

Example Sentences

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sloot

So we opened the sloot business with a ride in one of those heavy weight 'lectric hansoms, telling the throttle pusher to shove her wide open.

From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

De “kapitein Hitoe” sloot namens de Hitoeezen met hem een contract, waarbij men beloofde, elkaar wederkeerig, wat het geloof betreft, geen overlast aan te doen4.

From by

Beth crossed the sloot, Grown arrogant with rains, which lapped her square Of gorgeous garden, swirling to the spruit Beyond, in childish hurry.

From Provocations by Sibyl Bristowe

There is no water but what runs down the streets in the sloot, a paved channel, which brings the water from the mountain and supplies the houses and gardens. 

From Letters from the Cape by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon

What it could not swallow ran off in mad rivulets to the great sloot, that now foamed like an angry river across the flat.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Olive Schreiner