Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The reedbuck of South Africa, Eleotragus arundinaceus.
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Examples
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I could see that it was yellow, and prepared for action, when instead of a lion out bounded a beautiful rietbok which had been lying in the shelter of the pan.
Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Percy Addleshaw 1891
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It must, by the way, have been a rietbok of a peculiarly confiding nature to lay itself down with the lion, like the lamb of prophecy, but I suppose the reeds were thick, and that it kept a long way off.
Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Percy Addleshaw 1891
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"Well, I let the rietbok go, and it went like the wind, and kept my eyes fixed upon the reeds.
Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Percy Addleshaw 1891
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