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South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air
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springbok
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
South African gazelle, 1775, from Afrikaans, from springen "to leap" (from Middle Dutch springhen , see spring (v.)) + bok "antelope," from Middle Dutch boc (see buck (n.1)).
Wikipedia
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Springbok (1870–1897) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the seventh Belmont Stakes in 1873. Foaled in 1870, he was sired by the imported stallion Australian , his dam was a daughter of Lexington . During his racing career he started 25 races, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small, fast antelope native to southern Africa, ''Antidorcas marsupialis''.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Springbok \Spring"bok`\ (-b[o^]k`), Springbuck \Spring"buck`\ (-b[u^]k`), n. [D. springbok; springen to spring, leap + bok a he-goat, buck.] (Zo["o]l.) A South African gazelle ( Gazella euchore ) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ How much keeping the springbok would mean is clear from the way the issue is covered in the media here. ▪ To many, the springbok was transformed from a symbol of apartheid into a new rallying point for a reconciled nation.
WordNet
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n. a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air [syn: springbuck , Antidorcas marsupialis , Antidorcas euchore ]
Usage examples of springbok.
Springbok and pronghorns are filtering in from out of the wild, replacing the bison.
The barracouta ignored the lines but some, like those luckless springbok of the giant herds which impale themselves on barbed wire while the others push until the wire breaks, got caught up in the hooks.
Hell, Harry Mearns wouldn't know what to do with a combine harvester unless it had a grenade launcher under the seat, while his sum total of expertise in animal husbandry had been gained from sadistic drunken forays into every black bordello between North Africa and the Springbok border.
The great springbok herds deserted the land, the kudu and the hartebeest, too, they all died or moved away.
As the train ran on they saw wonder followed by wonder, taller buildings than they had ever believed possible, roads that ran like rivers of steel with growling vehicles, tall chimneys that filled the sky with black thunderclouds, and multitudes upon multitudes, human beings more numerous than the springbok migrations of the Kalahari, black men in silver helmets and knee-high rubber boots, regiments of them, marching towards the tall headgears or, as the shifts changed, wearily swarming back from the shafts splashed from head to foot with yellow mud.
Mingled with the flocks of merino sheep were vast herds of springbok.
It consisted of game--blauwbok, springbok, steinbok, klipspringer, hartebeest, wildebeest, the black and the blue--no lobster at all, and it took even longer to eat.
As Centaine watched, the nearest antelopes took fright at the human presence, and began stotting, the characteristic alarm behaviour that gave them their name of springbok.
The alarm stotting was wildly infectious, and across the plain hundreds of springbok bounced on high, with white manes flashing.
Koen Brits was the other Boer leader they were waiting for, that giant of granite, standing six foot six inches tall, who could drink a bottle of fiery Cape Smoke the way a lesser man might quaff a mug of ginger beer, who could lift a trek ox off its feet, spit a stream of tobacco juice a measured twenty paces and with his Mauser hit a running springbok at two hundred paces.