veldt
An extensive, treeless grassland of southern Africa.
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How to use veldt in a sentence
It is this faculty which made our very clever Army Intelligence people rank the farmer of the veldt as a fool.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) | A. G. HalesThis is a bad plan, as young and immature mares breed early on the veldt, and throw weedy stock.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) | A. G. HalesThe town lies on the edge of the Athi Plains, a broad sweep of sun-bleached grass veldt many miles in extent.
In Africa | John T. McCutcheonThe veldt undulates from sky to sky, a plain rising and falling about the base of rocks and island kopjes.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson YoungWe knew the direction by the stars, and started across the veldt a little south of east.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson Young
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