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

Off we started again, now leaping a ditch or scrambling through a sluit, now crashing through bushes and stumbling over ant-hills.

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“Mightn’t he be lying dead in a sluit where you and Koos Bester left him last week?”

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Towards dawn they passed through a narrow sluit.

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A drift is really a crossing place over a river, which latter is called a sluit, if it has water in it, or a spruit if it is dry; and whether the drift is easy or difficult for wagons to cross depends on the banks and the bottom.

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We did not get into camp until after dark, and the baggage was later still, as there was a nasty drift over a sluit at the entrance to the camping ground; fires had to be lighted to show the wagons the way across.

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