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

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

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

When he woke the shadow had stretched across the sloot, and the sun was on the edge of the plain.

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

Na nog twee jonken vermeesterd te hebben, sloot men de baai van Manila in, waar de Spaansche vloot, bestaande uit zeven groote schepen, zich wederom te Cavite in veiligheid had gebracht.

From by

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 Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady