skut, noun

/skət//skɪt/
Forms:
schut, scutShow more Also schut, scut, skiet, skit.
Origin:
Afrikaans, South African Dutch, DutchShow more Afrikaans (earlier South African Dutch), elliptical form of Dutch schutkraal, see skutkraal.
obsolescent
1. A (municipal) pound for the control of stray animals; skutkraal.
1849 J.D. Lewins Diary. 76Sent Fengou to the schut with a horse of A. Ridgard’s, I believe.
1882 C. Du Val With Show through Sn Afr. I. 245Having overhauled him and interrogated him as to his intention, I received for answer the words ‘Hamba schut’, which my limited knowledge of the Zulu language and Cape Dutch told me meant he was driving them to ‘the Pound’, a receptacle for strayed cattle.
1892 The Jrnl 31 Mar. 4‘Klaas’...‘Ja, baas,’ ‘Take these cattle to the skit at once.’ ‘Maar baas –’ ‘Don’t ‘baas’ me, take them off.’
1899 Natal Agric. Jrnl 31 Mar. 4‘Skit,’ in South African, and ‘schuthok’ in European-Dutch, is always used by the English speakers when addressing kafirs on matters dealing with the useful, yet frequently harassing, institution of civilisation, the stock pound.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 433Schut,..The common name in South Africa for what is known in England as the ‘pound’; an enclosure for strayed animals. It is often spelled and generally pronounced ‘Skit’.
1958 A. Jackson Trader on Veld 41Stock was often sent by angry farmers to the skut (pound), and only released on payment of a fee of so much per head.
1970 A. Palmer Informant, King William’s Town, Eastern CapeWe sent the cattle to the skiet (pound).
‖2. combinations
skutgeld/-xɛlt/ [Afrikaans, geld money], the fee payable upon redemption of an impounded animal;
skuthok/-hɔk/ [Afrikaans (earlier South African Dutch schuthok), hok see hok], an enclosure at a pound; also Englished form skut hock.
1958 A. Jackson Trader on Veld 32As his neighbours made their pocket money from ‘schutgeld’ (pound fees) by catching his stock trespassing on their farms, Rooi was advised to sell one thousand of his horses to provide the wherewithall for the cost of fencing.
1852 A. Scott in Godlonton & Irving Narr. of Kaffir War of 1850–51–52 253The party off-saddled here,..stowed away a part of the unbroken furniture in the schut hocks around the dwelling,..saddled up and rode down to Mr. Temple Nourse’s farm.
1899 [see sense 1].
A (municipal) pound for the control of stray animals; skutkraal.
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