Sluit

a deep valley, traversed by a broad "sluit" or muddy water course. ❋ Unknown (1896)

"Four miles beyond Hind's store the column following the scouts, which met with no opposition, ascended a steep rise of some 400 feet, and came full in view of the Boer position on the opposite side of a deep valley, traversed by a broad 'sluit' or muddy watercourse. ❋ Louis Creswicke (N/A)

Dit sluit in die toestand van fasiliteite, toerusting en voertuie, personeel, wapentuig en wapenstelsels, beskikbaarheid van ammunisie en toerusting, ens. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Geagte Speaker, Generaal Viljoen en die Vryheidsfront het be - sluit geneem om die saak waarvoor hulle staan binne ons demokratiese bestel te beding. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Dit sluit in privaatversekering, direkte betaling, die besigheidsektor se bydrae om toeganklikheid tot dienste te verhoog. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Dit bring onder andere mee dat 'n getroude vrou gelyke bestuursbevoegdhede met haar man verkry en in die toekoms in die algemeen nie meer haar eggenoot se toestemming sal benodig om kontrakte te sluit nie. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Hierdie reelings bepaal onder andere dat ondernemings vir die dag sluit. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Ons doen steed 'n beroep op sulke partye om nou, selfs in hierdie laat stadium, by Kodesa aan te sluit. ❋ Unknown (1991)

It is a flat plain the whole way, but down the middle of it is a deep sluit or watercourse, some thirty feet deep, with steep, sudden banks, and through this the road dips down and passes. ❋ L. March Phillipps (N/A)

At night, of course, it collects (parks is the proper word) at some selected spot where the ground is favourable, and where in the shape of a sluit, river, or farm-dam there is water. ❋ L. March Phillipps (N/A)

Meantime, during the night several hundred Boer marksmen had been sent round into the sluit, and were now lying right across poor Broadwood's retreat. ❋ L. March Phillipps (N/A)

When he caught my gaze riveted upon him, he tried to look like a brand plucked from the burning; he rolled his great velvet-black eyes skyward, screwed up the sluit which ran across his face, and which he called a mouth, until it looked like a crumpled doormat, folded his hands meekly over his breast, and comported himself generally like a fraudulent advertisement for a ❋ A. G. Hales (N/A)

Every kopje was a natural fortress, every sluit a perfect line of trenches, and every donga a nursery for death. ❋ A. G. Hales (N/A)

My servant had adroitly dodged into a sluit which hid him from view, and I knew that he could work his way out far better than I could. ❋ A. G. Hales (N/A)

Meanwhile, Van Busch and P. Blinders, who had left the dorp behind them, and strolled up the almost dry bed of a sluit leading up amongst the hills, conversed, in Sabbath security from English artillery, and reassuring remoteness from Dutch eavesdroppers. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

Le Roux shot the horse of one of the men before he reached the sluit, loaded the unhorsed man on one of the other prisoner's horses, and then pursued the fleeing cavalrymen almost to the city-limits of Ladysmith. ❋ Howard C. Hillegas (1895)

One of the cavalrymen, who was in advance of the others, surrendered without attempting to make any resistance, while the others turned quickly to the right and rode headlong into a deep sluit. ❋ Howard C. Hillegas (1895)

During the second battle at Colenso a large number of Boers swam across the river and captured thirty or forty British soldiers who had lost the way and had taken refuge in a sluit. ❋ Howard C. Hillegas (1895)

Christian De Wet was a native of Dewetsdorp, and there was not a sluit or donga in all the territory where he fought so valiantly that he had not traversed scores of times before the war began. ❋ Howard C. Hillegas (1895)

see that [egotistical bitch] with his [display] [picture] as his eye, what a sluit ❋ Rhys (2005)

[OH shoot], I just got [pwned] by a sluit! He must be dliz0rz [pr0n]! ❋ Meowfoo (2005)

*[nathan] and David are in a lawfirm* [Nathan]: [Dayum] [Davey] boy look at that Sluit David: she fine boy.. she fine. ❋ Nathanazzi (2011)

Ben: [Kayleigh] [your such a] [sluit] ❋ Big Chicken33 (2019)

"[Sluit]." "Stop Ikke Sluit." "[squiggly line], dash dot half square, backwards E. Omg! Sluit!" "Ya mum is a Sluit." "YOU [SLUIT]" "[OGG] SLUIT" ❋ Bo0b (2006)