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‖ steenbok|ˈsteːnbɔk|
Also steenboc(k, -buck, steinboc(k, -bok, -buck, stembok.
[Du. steenbok, f. steen stone n. + bok buck n.1 Cf. steinbock.]
A small South African antelope, Rhaphiceros campestris.
1775Masson Journ. Cape in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 295 Some had the skin of a steenbock hung over their breast. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 157/2 Returning..I shot a steinbok. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 431 He has shot every kind of game in Africa, from a steinbuck to an elephant. 1894Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. II. 307 Although the name steinbok is properly restricted to a single species of antelope, it will be found [etc.]. 1913C. Pettman Africanderisms, Steenbok... Raphicerus campestris. The word is frequently corrupted to Stembok. |