steinbok
Americannoun
PLURAL
steinboksPLURAL
steinboknoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of steinbok
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
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On a crag below us a steinbok stood in statuesque repose.
From New York Times
There was a fair quantity of game about; Klaas shot some klipspringer antelopes—hereabouts comparatively tame—up in the mountains, and there were koodoos, steinbok and duykers in the bushes and kopjes.
From Project Gutenberg
They ran up and found that the steinbok was already dead.
From Project Gutenberg
The former, a game little antelope of the steinbok species, takes the ground in a series of long, flying leaps, his white tail whisking like a flag of defiance.
From Project Gutenberg
Coursing steinbok with greyhounds used to be a popular sport in South Africa, but when my husband and I were in Kimberley in 1892, Mr. Fenn was establishing a pack of foxhounds.
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