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n. A type of damalisk, an African antelope, ''Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi'', closely related to the hartebeest.
Usage examples of "blesbuck".
This went on for nearly an hour, in which time he had fired twentyseven cartridges and killed three blesbuck and wounded a vilderbeeste, which they proceeded to chase.
About half a mile beneath them was a great herd of blesbuck feeding, three hundred or more of them, and beyond them another herd of some sixty or seventy much larger and wilder-looking animals with white tails, which John at once recognised as vilderbeeste.
About twenty blesbuck turned and came straight past John, at a distance of forty yards.
Jumping into the cart again, and leaving the dead blesbuck to look after itself for the present--not a very safe thing to do in a country where there are so many vultures--John, or rather Jantje, put the horses into a gallop, and away they went at full tear.
That was about six months earlier than the time of which I write, and during those months I had often used this rifle for the shooting of game, such as blesbuck and also of bustards.
At dawn I poked my head between the curtains of the waggon, and in the dense mist that rolled around us saw a great herd of blesbuck feeding all about the waggon.
He missed his blesbuck but I killed two at one shot, a thing I had never done before.