Definition of Sluit

1. a narrow water channel [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluit

slugworms
sluice
sluice down
sluice valve
sluiced
sluicegate
sluicelike
sluices
sluiceway
sluiceways
sluicier
sluiciest
sluicing
sluicy
sluing
sluit (current term)
sluits
slum
slum area
slumber
slumber parties
slumber party
slumbered
slumberer
slumberers
slumbering
slumberingly
slumberland
slumberless
slumberlike

Literary usage of Sluit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zululand and Cetewayo: Containing an Account of Zulu Customs, Manners, and by Walter Robert Ludlow (1882)
"A 'sluit' is an old water course, with very steep banks and deep pools of stagnant water fringed with reeds, in which whole colonies of snakes love to lie. ..."

2. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by South Africa Supreme Court (1907)
"When he had gone up the sluit, he had found that Olivier's land ... It. was possible to put the bank of the sluit. right again without going 30 feet on to ..."

3. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by South Africa Supreme Court (1904)
"He had not seen the water diverted by any Government employee from the sluit to the station yard. He would not say that it was stormwater that went ..."

4. Zulu-English dictionary by John William Colenso (1884)
"Yonng crawling locust, before the wings are developed; used also, as follows, of water conveyed (creeping) along a sluit, or of the sluit itself; ..."

5. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1902)
"The horses refused to face it, and turning their A DEEP sluit Photograph by GW Wilson Sr Co.. Aberdeen backs to the wind and their heads down they stood ..."

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