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rietbok

Rietboc \Riet"boc\, n. [D. riet reed + bok buck.] (Zo["o]l.) The reedbuck, a South African antelope ( Cervicapra arundinacea); -- so called from its frequenting dry places covered with high grass or reeds. Its color is yellowish brown. Called also inghalla, and rietbok.

Usage examples of "rietbok".

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.

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.

I let the rietbok go, and it went like the wind, and kept my eyes fixed upon the reeds.