steinbok
Americannoun
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steinboks,
plural
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steinbok
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of steinbok
First recorded in 1675–85
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As they came near, a steinbok which had been feeding apparently under a tree, bounded out of the covert, passing within twenty yards of them.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
But the steinbok wouldn’t have eaten them if they hadn’t been wholesome food, and so we may venture on them too.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
Ha! and so he has,” he added the moment after, as a steinbok came bounding down the cliff.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
He was a most useful auxiliary, and from his back I shot elands, hartebeest, reitbok, ourebis, steinbok, duikers, etc.
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
We’ve brought down as nice a young steinbok as you’d wish to eat.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
We saw herds of animals in the distance—gemsboks, steinboks, gnus, and cameleopards—but they were too far off to enable me to get a shot at any of them.
From In the Wilds of Africa by Alfred Pearse
Monkeys and rhinoceroses, besides kudus, steinboks, and antelopes, were numerous in the vicinity.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
On the 16th of May the little caravan started off again, and after a march of fifteen miles, camped at Matamombo, in a region where monkeys, rhinoceros, steinboks and antelopes abounded.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley
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