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‖ spruit S. African.|sprœyt|
[Du. spruit sprout n.1]
A small stream or water-course, usually almost or altogether dry except in the wet season.
1832Graham's Town Jrnl. 13 Apr. 62 They were joined by Lieut. Warden and his party.., who had been ordered to come over the back of the mountains and rendezvous at the Spruits of the Keiskamma. 1850N. J. Merriman Jrnl. in Kafir, Hottentot & Frontier Farmer (1854) 85 In two days more we found ourselves, just after sundown, at Carl Spruit, (a small stream,) about ten miles this side of Bloemfontein. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 207, I scraped my finger-nails off in making large holes in the dry spruits, but not one drop came. 1876M. A. Barker Year's Housekeeping S. Africa viii. 150 A real river, not..a capricious spruit, sometimes a ditch, and sometimes a lake. 1889F. Oates Matabele-Land 66 Where we outspanned the boys made a fire in the hollow bed of a spruit. |