sluit

[ sloot ]

/ slut /

noun

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

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Origin of sluit

1860–65; <Afrikaans sloot<Dutch: ditch

Words nearby sluit

slugging average, sluggish, sluice, sluicegate, sluiceway, sluit, slum, slumber, slumberland, slumberous, slumber party

Example sentences from the Web for sluit

The Hottentot man put a leg of the kid under his coat and left the rest of the meat for the two in the sluit, and walked away.
Dream Life and Real Life|Olive Schreiner
In front the said ground, perfectly open, sloped away gently to a sluit, constituting a first-rate arena for a rough-and-tumble.
Harley Greenoak's Charge|Bertram Mitford
Every kopje was a natural fortress, every sluit a perfect line of trenches, and every donga a nursery for death.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900)|A. G. Hales
They were taking advantage of a sluit or furrow—crawling like serpents along in this precarious shelter.
'Tween Snow and Fire|Bertram Mitford

At the point where the drift cuts the sluit the nullah is broad and extensive.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. V (of VI)|Louis Creswicke

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