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[ sloot ] / slut /
noun(in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains. Origin of sluit1860–65; <Afrikaans sloot<Dutch: ditch Words nearby sluitslugging average, sluggish, sluice, sluicegate, sluiceway, sluit, slum, slumber, slumberland, slumberous, slumber party Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sluitThe Hottentot man put a leg of the kid under his coat and left the rest of the meat for the two in the sluit, and walked away. Dream Life and Real Life|Olive Schreiner In front the said ground, perfectly open, sloped away gently to a sluit, constituting a first-rate arena for a rough-and-tumble. Harley Greenoak's Charge|Bertram Mitford Every kopje was a natural fortress, every sluit a perfect line of trenches, and every donga a nursery for death. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900)|A. G. Hales They were taking advantage of a sluit or furrow—crawling like serpents along in this precarious shelter. 'Tween Snow and Fire|Bertram Mitford
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