veld — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries.

   Usage

   • South-Africa

   Related words

   HighveldLowveld

   Examples

   In the Bokke-velds, as they are called, theſe animals [springbok] are found in great numbers, and ſometimes at Roode-Zand.

   Advance tovvards the Cond Bokke Veld, or cold country of Antelopes: mountains covered with ſnovv.

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   People who have not been brought into contact with snakes may deny that they possess the power of fascinating a human being, but in the wild veldt strong, able-bodied men have been subjected to their spell, and can tell a different tale.

   The pastoral lands or "velds," which extend chiefly around the outer slopes and in the east, are distinguished according to the nature of the grass or sedge which they produce as "sweet" or "sour."

   Around, as far as the eye can see, there stretches the bare and dreary-looking plain. The Veld, as this plain is called, has a reddish soil, dry, barren, and dusty, with here and there at considerable intervals a straggling bush or a clump of thorn-shrubs.

   I have a piece of veld on Doornfontein. It is a reserved veld. A small river runs here. It is the best grazing on my farm, being very sweet. I reserve it for my cattle.

   Viewed from a practical point of view there seems no reason to think that these animals will fail to withstand the conditions of the Natal veld.

   [W]e found vast numbers of Boer women and children would be left unprotected on the veldt.

   And Thane nodded and staggered blindly upward, only to sag again in a heap upon the veldt.

   Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.

   From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.

   South of the Zambesi, the frontier-line separates the high veldt and the low veldt regions, the line itself sometimes running along the crest and sometimes through the middle of the broken escarpment where the high granite tablelands break down towards the sea.

   For [Rachel] Holmes, [Sarah] Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

   In the flatness of the veldts, one would want to communicate with someone else in order to provide theme and variation to the unbounded and unfettered thoughts stretching outward, inspired by the immense sameness of this place.

Noun

1. elevated open grassland in southern Africa

   Synonyms

   veldt

   Broader terms

   grassland