sluit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sluit
1860–65; < Afrikaans sloot < Dutch: ditch
Example Sentences
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Off we started again, now leaping a ditch or scrambling through a sluit, now crashing through bushes and stumbling over ant-hills.
From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon
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 Bertram Mitford
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 Howard Clemens Hillegas
Hiding away in sluit and river-bed and thorn thicket, every step of their flight had been attended with peril.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford
He walked down the bed of the sluit a little way and came to an overhanging bank, under which, sitting on the red sand, were two men.
From Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story by Olive Schreiner
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