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‖ krantz S. Africa.|krænts|
Also krans(e, kranz. Pl. krantze, krantzes, kranses.
[a. S. African Du., = Du. krans, in Kilian krants, coronet, chaplet; cf. Ger. kranz coronet, garland, circle, ring, encircling horizon of mountains, cornice.]
A wall of rock encircling a mountain or summit; hence, more widely, any precipitous or overhanging wall of rocks bordering high ground or hemming in a valley.
1785G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape Good Hope II. xi. 48 He looked out for a klipkrans (so they generally call a rocky place level and plain at top, and having a perpendicular precipice on one side of it). 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. 43 Our Lothian friends with their good Mother dwell Beside yon Kranz. 1849Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 183 ‘The river’, says Farley,..‘runs under yon krantz’ [note, Wooded cragg, or cliff]. 1852C. Barter Dorp & Veld 93 We had been directed to look out for a white krans in the mountain. 1880S. Africa (ed. 3) 132 The forests are generally situated in kloofs and mountain sides, and in steep krantzes. 1892Midl. News & Karroo Farmer 4 Mar. 6 The krantz that overhangs the Maraisburg road..is in a very dangerous state, and yesterday a large stone..fell into the road. 1903Kipling Five Nations 196 But 'e wasn't takin' chances in them 'igh an' 'ostile kranzes. 1916J. Buchan Greenmantle xxi. 283 A little hill split the valley, and on its top was a kranz of rocks. 1924R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin iv. 72 Her pitchy crows..cling with gnarly toes To their steep krantzes. 1927W. Plomer I Speak of Afr. i. 37 Eddies of sound reaching the nervous leaf⁓like ears of the krans-coloured sheep in the stones overhead cause them to lift their heads. 1939tr. E. N. Marais's My Friends the Baboons iii. 32 The leopard was still ahead of us in the kloof and unless he had fled up the kranses, it was probable that we would meet him again. 1952Cape Times Mag. 19 July 6/5 Inquisitive baboons often watch the bathers from the krantze above. 1959G. Jenkins Twist of Sand xiv. 301 Peaks and valleys, fretted with razor-like kranzes and unscaleable cliffs. 1961L. van der Post Heart of Hunter xiv. 189 All day long she [sc. the rock-rabbit] darts in and out of the shadows and clefts of our Kranses and rocky hill-tops. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo v. 89 Koeltas, our guide, led us round the side of a krantz by a pathway as narrow as a bit of string. |