What is "mealie"

Usage examples of "mealie".

July and in one soft sound, like a sack of mealie meal hitting concrete, he buckles to his knees.

Japp was still sleeping, so I got a bowl of mealie porridge from Zeeta and went to bed.

My mother called the white-faced cow and gave it mealie leaves which she had brought with her.

In the mealie gardens I stopped awhile, for I was very hungry, and filled myself with the half-ripe mealies.

Then we hid in a mealie field for the day, as we were afraid of being seen.

On the third evening we reached some mealie gardens, and saw that they had been trampled down.

Now when she had sobbed her fill of joy, Umslopogaas brought Nada the Lily mass to eat and mealie porridge.

He was there, hidden by the mealie stalks, and there, along the fence to the right and to the left, the slayers crept!

And the dust-stinging wind blowing through the mealies on a hot, dry September night.

Their eyes follow us as we hurry past, and we stare at them until they are swallowed in the cloud of dust kicked up behind the armed convoy and the mine-detecting Pookie and the snake of farmers coming into town to sell green peppers and mealies, tobacco and milk.

He continued to cram his froglike mouth to capacity with handfuls of mealies scooped up from a vessel held up to him by a kneeling woman, and to stare down a broad lane which was being formed by the action of his subjects in pressing back on either hand.

Among the broken mealies we found the body of a very old man, as full of assegai wounds as a porcupine with quills.

I rushed at her howling like a wolf, and I snatched the mealies from her head and the kid from her hand.

Then I fled on, and coming to the river, I crossed it, and for that night I hid myself in the rocks beyond, eating the mealies and the flesh of the kid.

Who is innocent, after more than three centuries, among more than twelve generations of people who have paid for labour with a bag of mealies a month, beaten, imprisoned, banished, starved and killed?