red-buck, noun
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- South African DutchShow more Translation of South African Dutch roodebok (see rooibok).
impala sense 1 a.
1815 J. Campbell Trav. in S. Afr. 484The following are the number of creatures killed by our people during the journey...Redbucks..6.
1994 M. Roberts tr. of J.A. Wahlberg’s Trav. Jrnls 1838–56 22A young red-buck (sick) and various little birds.
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