Karoo-bushes - The bushes that take the place of grass on these plains.
Kartel - The wooden-bed fastened in an ox-wagon.
Kloof - A ravine.
Kopje - A small hillock, or "little head."
Kraal - The space surrounded by a stone wall or hedged with thorn branches,
into which sheep or cattle are driven at night.
Mealies - Indian corn.
Meerkat - A small weazel-like animal.
Meiboss - Preserved and dried apricots.
Nachtmaal - The Lord's Supper.
Oom - Uncle.
Outspan - To unharness, or a place in the field where one unharnesses.
Pap - Porridge.
Predikant - Parson.
Riem - Leather rope.
Sarsarties - Food.
Sleg - Bad.
Sloot - A dry watercourse.
Spook - To haunt, a ghost.
Stamp-block - A wooden block, hollowed out, in which mealies are placed to
be pounded before being cooked.
Stoep - Porch.
Tant or Tante - Aunt.
Upsitting - In Boer courtship the man and girl are supposed to sit up
together the whole night.
Veld - Open country.
Velschoen - Shoes of undressed leather.
Vrijer - Available man.