veldn.
/vɛlt/, /fɛlt/, U.S. /vɛlt/ In South Africa, the unenclosed country or open pasture-land. Frequently with defining terms denoting character or locality, as bushveld n., grassveld n. at grass n.1 Compounds 5, highveld n., lowveld n., sour veld n. at sour adj. and n.1 Compounds 2, sweet-veld n. Hence occasionally in plural (quot. 1876 at α. ).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > in specific country
savannah1555
llano1613
vega1645
steppea1670
pampasa1672
pampas1703
prairie1773
veld1785
Great Plains1794
puszta1839
campo1863
polje1894
mudflats1947
the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > common or unenclosed
common1377
moor1386
common land1470
champestrea1492
common field1523
champaign1555
commons1583
champian1611
commonity1612
public domain1627
commonage1635
commoninga1661
range1707–8
open1733
common area1837
mark1849
veld1852
outdoors1859
wide (also great, vast) open spaces1910
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > common or unenclosed land
lea805
leasea1000
green1190
common1377
tye1407
common field1523
champaign1555
commons1583
champian1611
commonage1635
commoninga1661
open1733
open field1762
mark1849
veld1852
scat-field1881
stray1889
α. 1785 [see Compounds 1]. 1801 [see Compounds 1].
β. 1862 J. W. Colenso Pentateuch I. 114 Joseph..wandering alone upon the veldt in search of his brethren.1879 Daily News 28 June 5/6 In the veldt..with a saddle for one's pillow.1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 25 May 7/3 Streets and squares and public buildings, where a year and a half ago was nothing but the boundless veldt.1835 A. Steedman Wanderings S. Afr. I. ii. i. 92 Here for the first time we bivouacked in what is called the Veld.
1852 C. Barter Dorp & Veld 43 My preference for a less confined sleeping-place on the open ‘veld’.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 404 The velt is now full of a poisonous herb, which is certain death in a few hours to oxen.
1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 42/1 The pastoral lands or velds..are distinguished according to the nature of the grass or sedge which they produce as ‘sweet’ or ‘sour’.
1892 Tablet 13 Aug. 260 The priest lived under a tent on the veld.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as veld fire, veld knowledge, veld lily, veld side, veld stool, etc. Similar uses are common from 1900 onwards.
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1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope II. xiv. 144 The land-drost has appointed one of the farmers, with the title of veld-corporal, to command in these wars.
1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. 378 Louw, the Veld Commandant, readily offered his services.
1861 C. J. Andersson Okavango River 49 The tremendous ‘veldt’ fires, which, ravaging the country far and wide, make it like a huge fiery furnace.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting i. 25 A deal table and a lot of velt stools and wagon chests the only furniture.
1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt iv. 54 A faithful native, who instructed him in veldt knowledge and all the arts of spooring.
1899 Daily News 24 Oct. 5/4 Here the veldt lilies and creeping convolvulus are beginning to bloom.
1946 R. Campbell Talking Bronco 66 With veld-flowers as an afterthought.
1959 Cape Times 18 July 2/5 The veld flowers should be excellent this year.
C2. (Chiefly with the spelling veld).
veld-cornet n. = field-cornet n.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > Justice of the peace or district magistrate > colonial and U.S.
peacemaker1683
field-cornet1800
veld-cornet1802
squire1817
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > specific rank of cavalry officer
cornet1579
Rittmaster1587
exempt1670
rough-rider1740
veld-cornet1802
Rittmeister1827
cavalry officer1838
troop sergeant1853
1802 G. M. Theal Rec. Cape Colony (1899) IV. 324 I have the honor to add the original report of the Veld Cornet Nicholaus Johannes Roets, sent to me with those Hottentots.
1852 J. C. Brown tr. T. Arbousset & F. Daumas Narr. Explor. xxiii. 350 He went to the drinking place of a veldcornet, a kind of country magistrate.
1899 H. R. Haggard Swallow ix I, as Veld-Cornet of the district, have tried the case according to the law.
veldt-cornetship n. = field-cornetcy n. at field-cornet n. Derivatives
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1810 J. G. Cuyler in G. E. Cory Rise of S. Afr. (1910) I. viii. 222 I..request you will impress the same upon the inhabitants of your Veld-cornetship.
veld-craft n. skill in matters pertaining to survival on the veld.
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1905 D. Blackburn Richard Hartley 205 He associated with greedy, scheming directors, who were ignorant of veld-craft.
1910 J. Buchan Prester John xiv. 232 The veld-craft I had mastered had taught me a few things.
1980 Country Life 9 Oct. 1258/1 Olive Schreiner..possessed considerable veldt-craft and also the power of minute observation.
veld fever n. (see quot.).
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > desire for specific things > [noun] > other specific desires
singularity1493
tacturiency1652
visuriency1652
nostalgie de la boue1897
veld fever1899
1899 Mrs. Phillips S. Afr. Recoll. 9 ‘Veld fever’ is a malady, a longing indescribable, which comes over many South Africans, who have lived much on the veld.
veld-kos n. (also veld-kost) [Dutch kost food] (see quot.).
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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [noun] > wild > wild edible plants
veld-kos1834
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun]
moreeOE
rootOE
bread-kind1697
provision1800
veld-kos1834
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 82 The veld-kost we will gather.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 523 Veld-kost, literally country-food, is the term used for the wild roots and bulbs eaten by the Bushmen.
1948 Cape Argus 23 Oct. (Mag.) 1/7 The summer rains of 1915 had revived the fountains and veldkos was abundant. In a drought year he could not have survived.
1961 Africa XXXI. 231 When !U had a baby, her sister, Di!ai, gathered veldkos for her for five days.
veldman n. (also veldsman) one skilled in living or hunting on the veldt.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun]
huntc1000
huntera1325
cacherec1340
pricasourc1387
waithmanc1425
chaser1470
huntsman1567
pricker1575
Nimrod1623
venator1656
fieldmana1683
sportsman1699
coureur de bois1700
sporting parson1757
chasseur1796
jäger1823
shikari1827
venerer1845
hunting-man1859
gamer1887
hunterman1891
veldman1895
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions
Angolan1600
Angola1653
Malay1765
South African1806
Ngwaketsea1832
bushboya1834
Kapenaar1834
Transkeian1847
bosch-man1849
Natalian1850
burgher1879
Transvaaler1887
veldman1895
Rhodesian1897
Vaalpens1899
backvelder1911
plattelander1934
southwester1960
Zimbabwean1961
Zambian1963
Botswanian1966
Botswanan1967
Namibian1968
Ciskeian1973
Sowetan1974
1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt ix. 194 Tace..liked to parade himself as an old Veldtsman.
1899 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 475 Stout wardens of the marches who are known to be as good veldmen and riflemen as any Boers in Africa.
veld pig n. the Ethiopian wart-hog ( Phacochœrus ethiopicus).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Phacochoerus (wart-hog)
phacochoere1827
wart-hog1840
veld pig1863
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 155 Just after sunset..a flac farc (veldt pig) came out of a hole near me.
veld rat n. the striped rat of South Africa.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > other types of mouse or rat
rock rat1781
Otomys1834
rabbit rat1837
deer-mouse1840
bamboo rat1881
muskrat1884
sigmodont1884
grasshopper mouse1888
veld rat1905
striped mouse1932
Sprague-Dawley1951
1905 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 551 The disease has been observed in veld rats (Arvicanthus pumilio), cats, and in one dog.
veld sickness n. (see quot.).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > dietary disorders
dew-bolne?1523
hunger-rot?1523
grass-sick1607
grain-sick1834
hoove1840
grass staggers1858
bloat1878
wobbles1886
grain-founder1890
blowing1891
veld sickness1896
corn-stalk disease1900
cattle-sickness1903
Molteno disease1911
grass tetany1931
1896 R. Wallace Farming Industries Cape Colony 82 Animals brought from sweet veld suffer from what is termed veld sickness, which results from insufficient nutrition and the hard and irritating nature of the food consumed.
veld sores n. a form of skin eruption due to living on the open veldt.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > other eruptive diseases
gutta rosaceac1400
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
horse-pox1656
flock-pox1672
hog pox1676
spotted pestilence1783
salt rheum1809
molluscum1813
molluscum contagiosum1817
grease-pox1822
horn-pox1822
date fever1836
glass-pock1858
molluscum sebaceum1866
verruga1873
furunculosis1886
gutta rubea1886
flannel rash1888
vaccinide1889
rubeoloid1893
pox1897
veld sores1898
spotted sickness1899
sweat-rash1899
synanthema1899
sporotrichosis1908
alastrim1911
pseudoxanthoma elasticum1933
monkeypox1960
scleromyxœdema1964
yusho1969
1898 C. Rae Malaboch 61 Owing to the insufficient supply of vegetables, there were several cases of veld sores.
1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2095. 486 Veld sores formed the most frequent entry in the morning company sick reports.
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