Crossword clues for kopje
The Collaborative International Dictionary
kopje \kop"je\, koppie \kop"pie\(k[o^]p"[i^]) n. [South African D., dim. of kop. See Kop.] A hillock; a small kop, especially a small hill rising up from the African veld. [South Africa]
Note: The colloqual Dutch pronunciation as here given is the usual one in South Africa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small hill in South Africa, from S.African Dutch, diminutive of Dutch kop "hill; head" (see kop).
Wiktionary
n. (context South Africa English) A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld).
WordNet
n. a small hill rising up from the African veld [syn: koppie]
Usage examples of "kopje".
But there were kopjes ahead, sown with fierce Dopper Boers, and those tempting wagons were only to be reached over their bodies.
Verstraeten beneden kwam, zoekende naar het sleutelmandje, dat Marie verzuimd had in haar kamer te brengen, en zij vond ze, alle drie lachende over heur kopje, de sleutelmand naast de banketschaal.
On crossing the railroad De Wet turned furiously upon his pursuers, and, taking an excellent position upon a line of kopjes rising out of the huge expanse of the Karoo, he fought a stubborn rearguard action in order to give time for his convoy to get ahead.
While Buller had established himself firmly upon the left of the Boer position, Pole-Carew had moved forward to the north of the railway line, and French had advanced as far as Swart Kopjes upon the Boer right.
As it chanced, the great fight of the day, that of the regiment of veterans, which Sir Melmoth informed me Panda had sent down at the last moment to the assistance of Umbelazi, his favourite son, took place almost at the foot of this kopje.
But if the Boers had had six guns in line, instead of one behind that kopje, and another between those distant rocks, it would not have been so difficult to say where they were.
But there were kopjes ahead, sown with fierce Dopper Boers, and those tempting wagons were only to be reached over their bodies.
On October 31st the Boers ventured upon an attack on Cannon Kopje, which is a small fort and eminence to the south of the town.
The Boers were hustled off the kopjes from which they tried to cover their rear.
There is too much reason to believe also, that considerable brutality was shown by those Boers who carried the kopje, and the very high proportion of killed to wounded among the British who lay there corroborates the statement of the survivors that several were shot at close quarters after all resistance had ceased.
The British had hardly time to reach the kopje and to dismount and line its edge when the Boers, yelling loudly, charged with their horses up the steep flanks.
To make out the Boer position the mounted infantry galloped round one of their flanks, and in doing so passed close to a kopje which was occupied by sharpshooters.
The Boer front covered some seven or eight miles, with kopjes, like chains of fortresses, between.
General Wood worked hard at the fortifying of the surrounding kopjes, until within a week the place had been made tolerably secure.
The battle resolved itself into a number of isolated actions in which the various kopjes were rushed by different British regiments, always with success and always with loss.