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sassaby|səˈseɪbɪ|
Also 9 sas(s)ayby, sassaybe, sassaybi, sassabye, tsessebe, tsessabi.
[a. Sechwana tsessébe, tsessábi.]
A large antelope (Alcelaphus lunata), a native of S. Africa, sometimes called the Bastard Hartebeest.
1820S. Daniell Sk. S. Africa 18 The Sasayby is an Antelope, heretofore not described, found in the Booshwana country. 1833Penny Cycl. II. 90/2 They consider it as a kindred species with the Hartebeest of the colonists... The Booshwanas call it Sassaby. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 156/1 Presently I came across two sassaybys, one of which I knocked over. 1857Livingstone Trav. vii. 135 The tsessebe. a1875T. Baines Gold Regions S.E. Afr. (1877) 66 Gee shot a Sassaybe, or bastard hartebeest. 1897H. H. Johnston Brit. Centr. Afr. 326 The tsessebe or sassaby of S. Africa. 1907W. C. Scully By Veldt & Kopje 201 Opportunity to lay low koodoo, sable and tsessabi. |