sluit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sluit
1860–65; < Afrikaans sloot < Dutch: ditch
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Prior, you take the other side, and both of you stand about seventy yards from the sluit, and keep well up on the rise till you get to your places.
From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Bertram Mitford
From among the trees lining the opposite side of the dry sluit, out of the burnt-up grass there now arose the figure of a man—a white man.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
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
No road was this, but a stony dry sluit.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
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
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