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

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

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)

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

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

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