steinbok
Americannoun
plural
steinboks,plural
steinboknoun
Etymology
Origin of steinbok
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
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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 Adams, H.C.
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 From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
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.
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.
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
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