spruit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spruit
1860–65; < Afrikaans < Dutch spruit sprout
Example Sentences
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The spruit or spring which gives its name to the town was called after one of the emigrant farmers, Jan Bloem.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
Beth crossed the sloot, Grown arrogant with rains, which lapped her square Of gorgeous garden, swirling to the spruit Beyond, in childish hurry.
From Provocations by Bristowe, Sibyl
Their position consisted of commanding hills down a defile through which a spruit flows towards the Orange River.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis
It occupies a gentle hollow in the plain, watered by a crooked ditch, called spruit here, running through a rich, dark, and very thirsty earth.
From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
I would have dived to the bottom of the filthiest hole in that old spruit a dozen times a day to make myself the tiniest atom less ugly than I was.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia
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