steinbok
Americannoun
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steinboks,
plural
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steinbok
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of steinbok
First recorded in 1675–85
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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 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Mitford, Bertram
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 Adams, H.C.
Look here, the steinbok was feeding on this melon, when we startled him.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by Adams, H.C.
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 Adams, H.C.
Looking round, he saw Lion standing in the entrance of the cave over the remains of the steinbok, only a part of which had been eaten.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by Adams, H.C.
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 Pearse, Alfred
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 Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
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 Headley, Joel Tyler
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