Vaal

[ vahl ]

noun

1. a river in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, flowing SW from the Transvaal to the Orange River. 700 miles (1,125 km) long.

Vaal

/ vɑːl /

noun

1. a river in South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg and flowing west to join the Orange River. Length: 1160 km (720 miles)

Example Sentences

It was the Vaal river, running here broad and deep, and making Barkly West a pleasing instead of a dull place.

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On the 24th the Vaal was crossed, and on the 31st Roberts entered Johannesburg.

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Immediately south of Kroonstadt we crossed the Vaal River, with its fine high-level bridge reduced to atoms by dynamite.

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In 1868 many enterprising colonists made their way up the Vaal River, and were successful in finding a good number of diamonds.

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The prisoners were taken to an old and disused drift of the Vaal river and told to cross.

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