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Definition of Dikkop
1. the stone-curlew [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dikkop
Literary usage of Dikkop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture (1907)
"Seventy sheep were sent up from the Institute at Grahamstown, and whenever dikkop
appeared in the vicinity the experimental sheep were despatched there. ..."
2. Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners: A Manual of Horse Medicine and Surgery by Matthew Horace Hayes (1903)
"In dikkop, the chief manifestation is an enormous swelling of the head, neck,
... The swelling of the head and neck in dikkop closely resembles that seen, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"It is somewhat remarkable that the only cases in which I have succeeded in
producing the dikkop form were those in which the virus which was used was ..."
4. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account ...by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams (1832)
"Soon after my arriva] there, I was visited by dikkop, or ' Thickhead,' the ...
and my waggon-driver dikkop and all his people readily agreed to stay till ..."
5. On the South African Frontier: The Adventures and Observations of an by William Harvey Brown (1899)
"There are two varieties of this sickness, viz.: "dikkop" and ... In dikkop the
head swells above the eyes ..."
6. Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the London Missionary by John Campbell (1822)
"Instead of Kleinveld, I brought to England another young Hottentot, Paul, the
son of dikkop, late Hottentot chief of Hooge Kraal, now called Pacaltsdorp. ..."
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