hoek, noun2
- Forms:
- Also hook, huik.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, angle, corner, hook, glen.
1. A bend in a river, an angular part of a mountain, a coastal inlet, or any topographical feature in which a bend or angle is prominent: used as an element in place names, as Fish Hoek, Franschhoek, Gannahoek.
1731 G. Medley tr. of P. Kolben’s Present State of Cape of G.H. II. 28The greatest Plenty of all is found at a Place, call’d the Fish-Huik, just under the Rock, call’d Hang-Lips.
1989 P.E. Raper Dict. of Sn Afr. Place Names 213Houhoek Pass, Explained as hout hoek or ‘wood corner’, hou hoek or ‘hold corner’.
2. obsolescent. A valley bounded on three sides by hills or mountains; a glen.
1827 G. Thompson Trav. 59I got upon the ridge which divides this hoek from another winding glen called Gannahoek.
1949 L.G. Green In Land of Afternoon 21There is the hoek which is easy to enter but hard to leave save by the way you came.
A bend in a river, an angular part of a mountain, a coastal inlet, or any topographical feature in which a bend or angle is prominent: used as an element in place names, as Fish Hoek, Franschhoek, Gannahoek.
A valley bounded on three sides by hills or mountains; a glen.
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