sluit

[ sloot ]

noun

1. (in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sluit¹

1860–65; < Afrikaans sloot < Dutch: ditch

Example Sentences

I crouched down in the sluit by the roadside and lay perfectly still—still as a hare—until the moon went in again.

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The Hottentot man put a leg of the kid under his coat and left the rest of the meat for the two in the sluit, and walked away.

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One day, in the course of a walk, John and Jess crossed the little bridge that spanned the sluit and went in to inspect the place.

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The course they were following ran down the side of one land wave, then across a little swampy sluit, and up the opposite slope.

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On the opposite side of the sluit from me a man staggered out from the trees—a white man—and fell.

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