Definition of Spruit

1. a watercourse [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spruit

sprucy
sprue
sprue-former
sprue / coeliac disease
sprues
sprug
sprugged
sprugging
sprugs
spruik
spruiked
spruiker
spruikers
spruiking
spruiks
spruit (current term)
spruits
sprung
sprung rhyme
sprung rhymes
sprung rhythm
sprunt
spruntly
sprush
sprushed
sprushes
sprushing
spry
spryer
spryest

Literary usage of Spruit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Transvaal War, 1880-81 by Blanche St. John Moschzisker Bellairs, Lady Bellairs (1885)
"THE BRONKHORST spruit DISASTER.1 THE circumstances which led to and attended the CHAP. despatch of the order for calling in the greater - — portion of the ..."

2. The Transvaal War, 1880-81 by Blanche St. John Ballairs, Blanche St. John Moschzisker Bellairs, Lady Bellairs (1885)
"One of the ambulance-waggons which had been Bronkhorst sent out to Bronkhorst spruit on the 21st returned on wounded. the 27th December, bringing eight of ..."

3. The 18th Hussars in South Africa: The Records of a Cavalry Regiment During by Charles Burnett (1905)
"We were unable to get the wagons over the spruit as it was running so high, ... There were sufficient troops now collected at Kaffir spruit to escort the ..."

4. With a Show Through Southern Africa and Personal Reminiscences of the by Charles Du Val (1884)
"The death-roll comprised the names of nearly all the officers who were with the regiment at the fatal spruit—Captain Nairne, Adjutant Harrison, ..."

5. The Eldorado of the Ancients by Karl Peters (1902)
"When at 3.30 we come round an imposing granite kopje, a laughing valley opens before us, framed in a whole sea of FIVE MILES spruit ..."

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