sluit

American  

[sloot] / slut /

noun

1. (in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.

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Etymology

Origin of sluit

1860–65; < Afrikaans sloot < Dutch: ditch

Example Sentences

With another awful curse the man fell forward on the baking earth, and lay, half in, half out of the line of trees which ended at the sluit.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram

They were taking advantage of a sluit or furrow—crawling like serpents along in this precarious shelter.

From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Mitford, Bertram

A falcon, hovering over the heads of our burghers in the sluit, was hit by a bullet from one of the shrapnel shells and fell dead to the ground in the midst of the men.

From Three Years' War by De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf

During the second battle at Colenso a large number of Boers swam across the river and captured thirty or forty British soldiers who had lost the way and had taken refuge in a sluit.

From With the Boer Forces by Hillegas, Howard Clemens

The course they were following ran down the side of one land wave, then across a little swampy sluit, and up the opposite slope.

From Jess by Haggard, Henry Rider