Definitions for sluit

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Spelling: [sloot]
IPA: /slut/

Sluit is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in sluit (ilstu).

Definitions for sluit

noun

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

Origin of sluit

1860-65; Afrikaans sloot Dutch: ditch

Examples for sluit

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

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.

Every kopje was a natural fortress, every sluit a perfect line of trenches, and every donga a nursery for death.

They were taking advantage of a sluit or furrow—crawling like serpents along in this precarious shelter.

In front the said ground, perfectly open, sloped away gently to a sluit, constituting a first-rate arena for a rough-and-tumble.

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

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.

At the point where the drift cuts the sluit the nullah is broad and extensive.

I despatched General Froneman to hold the river bank, and the sluit which descended to the river from the north.

Hiding away in sluit and river-bed and thorn thicket, every step of their flight had been attended with peril.

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