sluit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sluit
1860–65; < Afrikaans sloot < Dutch: ditch
Example Sentences
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One day, in the course of a walk, John and Jess crossed the little bridge that spanned the sluit and went in to inspect the place.
From Jess by Haggard, Henry Rider
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
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
I crouched down in the sluit by the roadside and lay perfectly still—still as a hare—until the moon went in again.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion 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
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