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▪ I. ‖ poort S. Afr.|pɔət|
[Du. poort (poːrt) gate, port n.2, in S. Africa, a pass.]
A mountain pass, esp. one cut by a stream or river.
1796tr. F. Le Vaillant's New Trav. Afr. II. 194 We issued from the mountains through a sort of passage, or defile, which is called the Poort. 1801J. Barrow Acct. Trav. S. Afr. I. ii. 109 The Poort may be considered as the entrance into Camdeboo. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. ii. 149 We entered the poort, or gorge of the mountains, through which the River of Baboons issues. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (ed. 2) I. 45 This poort, or mountain pass, the terror of waggon-drivers. 1894B. Mitford R. Fanning's Quest xxii, A poort is a pass or defile as distinct from a kloof. 1932C. Fuller Louis Trigardt's Trek vi. 68 Once through the poort, the junction of the spruit with the river is but a few hundred yards off. 1949L. G. Green In Land of Afternoon i. 21 A poort is different from a pass, for it is a passage through the mountains along the bed of a stream.
▪ II. poort, poort colyce
obs. ff. port, portcullis. |