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Kloof   Listen
noun
Kloof  n.  A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end. (South Africa)






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"Kloof" Quotes from Famous Books



... haven't time to tell you any more. We are already four hours late, and every hour means nearly two hundred miles. There are two things I want to do. First to arrange with the port officer to send help to Captain Bunce; then to get the petrol and lubricating oil ordered for me here. Van Kloof's the man. You ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang

... vast range of country covered, and the petty farms which give their names to positions, all tend to make the issue vague and the narrative obscure. The British still lay in a semicircle extending from Slingersfontein upon the right to Kloof Camp upon the left, and the general scheme of operations continued to be an enveloping movement upon the right. General Clements commanded this section of the forces, while the energetic Porter carried out the successive advances. ...
— The Great Boer War • Arthur Conan Doyle



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