hartebeestn.
/ˈhɑːtəbiːst/ A kind of antelope ( Alcephalus caama) common in South Africa.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Alcelaphinae > genus Alcelaphus (red hartebeest)
hartebeest1786
tetel1867
tora1873
konze1881
red hartebeest1900
kongoni1908
1786 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) II. xiv. 199 The hartbeest..is the most common of all the larger gazels.
1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. 99 One of our party fell in with the fresh remains of a kaama or hartebeest.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 11 Where the gnu, the gazelle and the hartèbeest graze.
1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 198 I saw a magnificent herd of hartebeeste quietly grazing.
1959 Cape Times 27 Jan. 2/6 Rare kinds of buck, such as eland and red hartebees.
1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter iii. xiv. 178 Once, the story says, Mantis appeared to the children of the early race as a dead Hartebees.
Compounds
hartebeest house n. (also hartebeest hut) ‘a frail structure of “wattle and daub”, so called, apparently, because a similar primitive structure was often erected by the earlier hunters’ (Pettman).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of
lonquhardc1480
hothouse1643
ajoupa1666
penthouse1683
pandal?1692
bark-hut1744
log-tent1748
log cabin1770
bush-hut1775
log-hut1778
yurt1780
isba1784
beach hut1806
whare1807
bough-house1811
pondok1815
grass hut1818
hartebeest house1818
leaf hut1818
gunyah1820
grass house1823
slab-and-bark hut1826
slab-and-shingle hut1826
slab whare1826
rondavel1829
bush-house1835
skerm1835
jacal1838
toldo1839
log-shanty1847
wurley1847
maloca1853
palm hut1853
whare1853
hutmenta1857
bush-shanty1857
benab1860
pondokkie1862
bothan1863
lanaia1869
hogan1872
tenta1873
beehive-hut1884
leaf shelter1886
Oklahoma1889
goondie1890
cabana1898
troolie hut1899
tukul1901
fale1902
banda1908
kya1909
hut1913
obi1913
Nissen hut1917
Nissen1919
basha1921
tourist cabin1928
bunkie1935
wanigan1937
Quonset hut1942
chickee1943
iron lung1943
Quonset1943
1815 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. II. 95 Not far from this wretched cabin stood a somewhat more spacious, but very ruinous straw hut, of the sort which is here called hartebeesthuisje.]
1818 B. H. Latrobe Jrnl. 256 A hartebeest-house, being a roof, put upon a wall about two feet in height.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting i. 16 What is called a hartebeest house, of very tall reeds, stuck close together in a kind of trench dug for them in bundles, and meeting over head.
1873 F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 242 A colony of Hottentot women had seized possession of our ‘hartebeest's hut’.
1898 W. C. Scully Vendetta of Desert iv. 23 Uncle Diederick lived in a structure known in South Africa as a ‘hartebeeste house’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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