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veeboer S. Afr.|fɪəbuːr|
Also as two words and with capital initial(s). Pl. -boer, -boere, -boers.
[Afrikaans, f. vee cattle, livestock (f. Du. vee: see fee n.1) + Boer.]
A livestock farmer.
1824S. Afr. Jrnl. I. 29 Poor Gert Schepers, a Vee Boer of the Cradock District, was less fortunate in an encounter with a South African lion. 1912Agric. Jrnl. Union of S. Afr. July 61 These plants were known to the veeboer or schaapboer as the cause of the troubles they produce long before any scientific investigation of their properties had been made. 1944J. Mockford Here are S. Africans iv. 39 Here the free burghers, the vee-Boers, rapidly acquired qualities unknown to the more sedate residents of Table Valley. 1954H. Gibbs Background to Bitterness i. i. 25 Most free men at the Cape wanted to become a veeboer, cattle-farmer. 1965M. G. Atmore Cape Furniture iii. 56 Thus arose the ‘veeboere’, each tenant on some 6,000 acres of cattle ranching country. |