sluit

Historical Examples

• Hiding away in sluit and river-bed and thorn thicket, every step of their flight had been attended with peril.

  John Ames, Native Commissioner

  Bertram Mitford

• I crouched down in the sluit by the roadside and lay perfectly still—still as a hare—until the moon went in again.

  Aletta

  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

• 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

• I despatched General Froneman to hold the river bank, and the sluit which descended to the river from the north.

  Three Years' War

  Christiaan Rudolf de Wet