Definition of Steenboks

1. steenbok [n] - See also: steenbok

Lexicographical Neighbors of Steenboks

steelworkers
steelworking
steelworks
steely
steely-eyed
steely-eyed missile man
steely-eyed missile men
steelyard
steelyards
steem
steemed
steeming
steems
steen
steenbok
steenboks (current term)
steenbuck
steenbucks
steened
steening
steenings
steens
steep
steep-slope roof
steep-slope roofs
steep-slope rooves
steeped
steepen
steepened
steepening

Literary usage of Steenboks

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

1. Contributions to the Science of Mythology by Friedrich Max Müller (1897)
"Was Herakles really no more than a mighty hunter before the Lord, a Grant or Speke who went out to shoot lions and steenboks, more particularly ..."

2. Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and South Africa: A Résumé of the by John Noble (1893)
"... steenboKS, and elands," besides a vast variety of birds. The lion evidently flourished exceedingly in this unequalled game country; and one is almost ..."

3. Cape Colony To-day by Alfred Richard Edward Burton (1907)
"In the ensuing winter the Commander's "Journal" describes the country as "swarming with elands, hartebeeste, and steenboks," and Hout Bay, ..."

4. Austral Africa; Losing it Or Ruling it: Being Incidents and Experiences in by John Mackenzie (1887)
"... and wanted to decline it—saying that the " steenbok" (a little antelope) had no strength, and yet there were always " steenboks"—God took care of them. ..."

5. An Expedition of Discovery Into the Interior of Africa: Through the Hitherto by James Edward Alexander (1838)
"... were with horse and hound in chase of steenboks. A characteristic anecdote may be here told of one of these Dutchmen. In my absence he was approaching ..."

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