miltsiekte, noun

/ˈməltsiktə/
Forms:
maltziekte, melt sicteShow more Also maltziekte, melt sicte, meltsiekte, melt zicte, meltziekte, miltsiekte, miltziekte.
Origin:
Afrikaans, South African DutchShow more Afrikaans (earlier South African Dutch meltziekte) milt spleen + siekte disease.
Pathology
Note:
Some of the spelling forms may have been influenced by English melt (variant of milt) spleen.
Anthrax, a disease of livestock caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis and communicable to people; melt sickness; miltsiek noun.
1835 T.H. Bowker Journal. 11 MayOne Fingo died from eating beef which had died of the Melt Zicte.
1835 T.H. Bowker Journal. 13 MayThere is another fingo ill of the melt Sicte.
1877 Queenstown Free Press 1 Dec.The oldest and most experienced of kurveyors confess themselves ‘flabbergasted’ by meltziekte.
1885 A. Smith Contrib. to S. Afr. Materia Medica 15Teucrium Africanum...When an ox or cow has died of milt ziekte the Kaffirs boil the flesh along with this plant, and believe they can eat it with impunity.
1892 The Jrnl 14 Jan. 2It may be hoped that redwater, horse-sickness, maltziekte, heartwater and other scourges will be stamped out by means of inoculation.
1896 R. Wallace Farming Indust. of Cape Col. 284Anthrax, locally termed ‘meltziekte’ or ‘gift-ziekte’,..in its well-known erratic and spasmodic way, appears..in all districts of the Colony, and among all classes of stock.
1914 Farmer’s Annual 117Anthrax or Meltziekte is a virulent disease of the blood, caused by the entrance into the system of a micro-organism known as the Bacillus Anthracis...It is communicable to man.
1945 H.C. Bosman Mafeking Rd (1969) 107Six of my best trek-oxen died of the miltsiekte.
1972 L.G. Green When Journey’s Over 51You had to guard your oxen against redwater, meltsiekte and lung sickness.
1989 M. Nel in Personality 6 Feb. 60The inhabitants of Douglas..treated the disaster as if it was no worse than miltsiekte or the drought.
Anthrax, a disease of livestock caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis and communicable to people; melt sickness; miltsiek noun.
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miltsiek, adjectiveadj. & nounn.min dae, noun phrasen. phr.
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