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

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Example Sentences

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sloot

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

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.

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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 Olive Schreiner

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 Olive Schreiner

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