waterbok, noun

Origin:: South African Dutch, DutchShow more South African Dutch, from Dutch water water + bok antelope.

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1835 A. Smith Diary (1940) II. 99A male waterbok shot this morning.

1887 A.A. Anderson 25 Yrs in Waggon I. 121One afternoon I took my rifle for a ramble round in the thick bush veldt to look for a waterbok.

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