SOME BOER TERMS AND THEIR MEANING.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 169, 29 June 1901, Page 4

SOME BOER TERMS AND THEIR MEANING.

Hie'following is tclist of* setae of the* Boer terms and their meaning: Afrikatfder-“A white man bom ita South Africa, of'European stock. Biltdhg—Boer provender. Dried meat*' Burgher—Males over sixteen years old> possessing the franchise. Donga-—A water-hole or deep ditch. Dopper The’ Furitanieal-Lutheranf Boer. ford.Field Gornet—A’ iShgistrste #ith’ cer*‘ tain military powers^ Fontein—A spring. Griqueland West (Greeks' District of- Kimberley- diamond' mines. Kloof—A ravine. Kopje—‘A' hillock. Kraal—A cattle-pound, or collection* of native huts. cleft betweed 1 nills.Mealies—lndian cornstaple food of l natives, and much grown and used by* the Boers for bread, etc. Js ek—The saddle connecting two hills.*Pffn—A 1 sheet Of waters Pont—A ferry. Poort—A pass between or over" the* mountains. Eooinek- literally rtjdheokv. Bote? term for English soldiers.Sluil—A dry ditch. Spruit— A small stream". Trek—Travelling by ox waggon Veldt—The South African Prairie.-Velt-Cornet—See Field Gomet. Vierkleilr—Tlie' tour coloured Boer* flag—red, white, blue, and green.Vlei—A small lake. Voorlooper—‘The boy leading the first 1 fpan of an ox team: Voortrekker —the old generation of Boers who-took part in the Great* TrekF of 1837-.-Earp—A Boer pol? deman.