sloot
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of sloot
from Afrikaans, from Dutch sluit, sluis sluice
Example Sentences
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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.
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 Schreiner, Olive
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 Bristowe, Sibyl
It was also strange, he sitting there in that sloot in that up-country plain!—strange as the fantastic, changing shapes in a summer cloud.
From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive
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 Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
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