Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun South Africa A
prison .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tronk.
Examples
-
Immediately becoming sensible of his folly, after a momentary struggle he suffered himself to be led quietly away, but looked over his shoulder as he was marched off to the "tronk," and said hurriedly --
-
His replies not being satisfactory, the animals were seized and put in the pound, whence they were afterwards reclaimed, while the thief escaped being put in the "tronk," or jail, by a sudden dart into the jungle of the Boschberg!
-
Al gaan ons almal tronk toe, hulle wat agterbly moet voorentoe gaan.
-
Al gaan ons almal tronk toe, hulle wat agterbly moet voorentoe gaan.
CONTENTS 2008
-
You may build them like great castles, or they may be like a backveld tronk, only mud and corrugated iron, but there is always a key and a man who keeps it, and that man can be bested.
Greenmantle 2005
-
Die blote feit dat ek in besit is en aangehaal het uit Rubin se publikasie sou onder Apartheid beteken het dat ek self in die tronk sou beland het.
SPEECH BY ANNELIZ� VAN WYK DURING THE STATE OF THE NATION DEBATE 2004
-
Dit is die taal van die polisie en die taal van die tronk.
SPEECH OF NELSON MANDELA, DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1991
-
Dit is die taal van die polisie en die taal van die tronk.
SPEECH OF NELSON MANDELA, DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1991
-
Dit is die taal van die polisie en die taal van die tronk.
SPEECH OF NELSON MANDELA, DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1991
-
The elder buck rejoiced in the sonorous title of "Minne-tronk-ske-wan," but divers convictions for insobriety under the Indian Liquor Act, and the facetious tongue of
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.