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‖ hartebeest, hartbeest|ˈhɑːtəbiːst, ˈhɑːtbiːst|
Also in Afrikaans form hartebees.
[S. Afr. Du., f. Du. hert hart + beest beast.]
a. A kind of antelope (Alcephalus caama) common in South Africa.
1786Sparrman Voy Cape G.H. II. xiv. 199 The hartbeest..is the most common of all the larger gazels. 1824W. J. Burchell Trav. II. 99 One of our party fell in with the fresh remains of a kaama or hartebeest. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. 11 Where the gnu, the gazelle and the hartèbeest graze. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 198, I saw a magnificent herd of hartebeeste quietly grazing. 1959Cape Times 27 Jan. 2/6 Rare kinds of buck, such as eland and red hartebees. 1961L. van der Post Heart of Hunter iii. xiv. 178 Once, the story says, Mantis appeared to the children of the early race as a dead Hartebees.
b. attrib., as hartebeest house, hut, ‘a frail structure of ‘wattle and daub’, so called, apparently, because a similar primitive structure was often erected by the earlier hunters’ (Pettman); also hartebeeste house.
[1815A. Plumptre tr. Lichtenstein's Trav. II. 95 Not far from this wretched cabin stood a somewhat more spacious, but very ruinous straw hut, of the sort which is here called hartebeesthuisje.] 1818B. H. Latrobe Jrnl. 256 A hartebeest-house, being a roof, put upon a wall about two feet in height. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting i. 16 What is called a hartebeest house, of very tall reeds, stuck close together in a kind of trench dug for them in bundles, and meeting over head. 1873F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 242 A colony of Hottentot women had seized possession of our ‘hartebeest's hut’. 1898W. C. Scully Vendetta of Desert iv. 23 Uncle Diederick lived in a structure known in South Africa as a ‘hartebeeste house’. |