krantzn.

Brit.

/kran(t)s/,

/krɑːn(t)s/, U.S.

/kræn(t)s/, South African English

/krʌns/,

/krɑːns/

Forms: Also krans(e, kranz. Plural krantze, krantzes, kranses.

Etymology: < South African Dutch, = Dutch krans, in Kilian krants, coronet, chaplet; compare German kranz coronet, garland, circle, ring, encircling horizon of mountains, cornice.

South African.

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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > cliff > [noun]

cliffOE

cleoa1300

cleevec1300

rochec1300

clougha1400

heugha1400

brackc1530

clift1567

perpendicular1604

precipice1607

precipe1615

precipit1623

abrupt1624

scar1673

bluff1687

rock wall1755

krantz1785

linn1799

scarp1802

scaur1805

escarpment1815

rock face1820

escarp1856

hag1868

glint1906

scarping1909

stone-cliff1912

ledra1942

1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman 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).

1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 43 Our Lothian friends with their good Mother dwell Beside yon Kranz.

1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 183 ‘The river’, says Farley,..‘runs under yon krantz’ [note, Wooded cragg, or cliff].

1852 C. Barter Dorp & Veld 93 We had been directed to look out for a white krans in the mountain.

1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 132 The forests are generally situated in kloofs and mountain sides, and in steep krantzes.

1892 Midl. 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.

1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 196 But 'e wasn't takin' chances in them 'igh an' 'ostile kranzes.

1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xxi. 283 A little hill split the valley, and on its top was a kranz of rocks.

1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin iv. 72 Her pitchy crows..cling with gnarly toes To their steep krantzes.

1927 W. 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.

1939 tr. 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.

1952 Cape Times 19 July (Mag. section) 6/5 Inquisitive baboons often watch the bathers from the krantze above.

1959 G. Jenkins Twist of Sand xiv. 301 Peaks and valleys, fretted with razor-like kranzes and unscaleable cliffs.

1961 L. 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.

1966 E. 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	krantz
释义	krantzn. Brit. /kran(t)s/, /krɑːn(t)s/, U.S. /kræn(t)s/, South African English /krʌns/, /krɑːns/ Forms: Also krans(e, kranz. Plural krantze, krantzes, kranses. Etymology: < South African Dutch, = Dutch krans, in Kilian krants, coronet, chaplet; compare German kranz coronet, garland, circle, ring, encircling horizon of mountains, cornice. South African. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > cliff > [noun] cliffOE cleoa1300 cleevec1300 rochec1300 clougha1400 heugha1400 brackc1530 clift1567 perpendicular1604 precipice1607 precipe1615 precipit1623 abrupt1624 scar1673 bluff1687 rock wall1755 krantz1785 linn1799 scarp1802 scaur1805 escarpment1815 rock face1820 escarp1856 hag1868 glint1906 scarping1909 stone-cliff1912 ledra1942 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman 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). 1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 43 Our Lothian friends with their good Mother dwell Beside yon Kranz. 1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 183 ‘The river’, says Farley,..‘runs under yon krantz’ [note, Wooded cragg, or cliff]. 1852 C. Barter Dorp & Veld 93 We had been directed to look out for a white krans in the mountain. 1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 132 The forests are generally situated in kloofs and mountain sides, and in steep krantzes. 1892 Midl. 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. 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 196 But 'e wasn't takin' chances in them 'igh an' 'ostile kranzes. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xxi. 283 A little hill split the valley, and on its top was a kranz of rocks. 1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin iv. 72 Her pitchy crows..cling with gnarly toes To their steep krantzes. 1927 W. 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. 1939 tr. 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. 1952 Cape Times 19 July (Mag. section) 6/5 Inquisitive baboons often watch the bathers from the krantze above. 1959 G. Jenkins Twist of Sand xiv. 301 Peaks and valleys, fretted with razor-like kranzes and unscaleable cliffs. 1961 L. 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. 1966 E. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1785
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