sluit

[ sloot ]

/ slut /

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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

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
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
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.
Jess|H. Rider Haggard
The course they were following ran down the side of one land wave, then across a little swampy sluit, and up the opposite slope.
Jess|H. Rider Haggard

On the opposite side of the sluit from me a man staggered out from the trees—a white man—and fell.
In the Whirl of the Rising|Bertram Mitford