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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A town and local municipality in Western Cape province, South Africa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To shift sideways.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, obsolete, transitive
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History
From the town of the same name in the Western Cape, South Africa. During the South African War (or Boer War), English officers who had done badly were sent to a farm at Stellenbosch, without losing rank, to look after horses.
