A WAR DICTIONARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 27 January 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)

A WAR DICTIONARY.

The following list will be found useful by readers of the war news. The pronunciation of the more difficult words is given:—

Aapies River (Arpies) .—Runs through 1-retoria into.the Limpopo. , . Afrikander.—A white man born in

South Africa, of European .stock. Berg.—A- mountains *^'*- :^. y-y*-'"^'-

Bethulie (Beth-oo:ly-i.—Town in the Orange Free State. : . ..

Biltong.—Boer provender. Dried meat. Boer.—A peasant. : Burgher.—Males over sixteen years

old possessing the franchise. Commandant.—Commander. • Commando. —A body of Boers; Commandeer.—To mobilise; to requi-

sition. Dam.—An artificial lake. ';' . Disselboom. —Pole of an ox waggon. Donga.—A water-hole or deep ditch. Dop.-—Boer brandy. | : Dopper.—The Puritanical-Lutheran Boer. . <

Dorp.—A village. Drift—A ford.

Etshowe (Etsh-owy).—Camp •in Zululand. Residence of Commissioner. Field Cornet.—A magistrate with certain military powers. .''.-"■,:,' Fontein.—A spring.

Gaberones (Bab-ber-oons),—Very important native town, ninety miles north of Maf eking. ', . ' Geldenhuis (Geld-den-hise).—Former-ly member of the Vblksraad - for ■Johannesburg.

Griqualand West (Greek-a-land).—Dis-

trict of Kimberley diamond mines. Kantoor , (Kan-tore). —Rocky mining

. valley near Barberton, in Transvaal. Klip.—A stone. Kloof.—A ravine. . ' ,

Komati Poort (Ko-marty-poort).—-Border town. Transvaal and Portuguese territory. 'r "'.'.' ' ''■-■'' ' Kopje.—A hillock. '~''..".',. ' Kraal.—A cattle-pound, or collectiou of native huts, ■ y Krantz. —A cleft'between hills. Laager.—A Boer camp. , .. , : Mealies. —Indian* corn; staple food of natives, and much grown! and used by the Boers for bread, etc. Nek.—The saddle connecting two hills.. Oorlog.—War. Palapwe Pal-larp-sway).-—Very large . native town in Becliuanaland. Chief Khama's headquarters. ,"..' Pan. —A sheet of water. Pont. —A ferry. Poort.—A pass between or over the mountains. ,: Raanathlabama. (Ray*-ma.th-lay-bar-mer).—Near Maf eking; British' camp. Rooinek. —Literally Tedneck. Boer, term for English soldiers. ',' • Schuin's .Hoogte (Skeins-Hoog-tay).— Hill in Natal; just over the Transvaal border. Battle in war of 1881. Shut.—A dry ditch. . Spruit.—A small stream. Taal.: —Boer low-Dutch language. Trek. —Travelling by ox-waggon. Uitlander. —A . non-burgher of . the - Transvaal. Veldt.—The South African prairie. Veldt-Cornet.—See Field Cornet. Vereen iging Fur-eeny-ging).—First station on the Transvaal side of the Vaal River. Custom house. ... Vierkleur.: —The four-coloured Boer flag, red, white, blue and green. Vlei.—A small lake. , . Voorlooper.—The boy leading the first span of an ox team. Voortrekker.—The older 'generation of Boers who took part in the Great Trek of 1837. , ■ Zarp.— ABoer policeman. Zoutpansberg (Zoot - pans - berg;,— Very large northern district of Transvaal. Highly mineralised.