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klip, n. S. Afr.|klɪp|
Also dim. klippie.
[Afrikaans, a. Du. klip cliff, rock, stone.]
1. A diamond; † micaceous iron ore (quot. 1835). Also, blink klip [Afrikaans blink shining].
1835A. Smith Diary 22 Jan. (1939) I. 225 [The Bechuana] mix fat with the blink klip and rub it over the body in moderate quantities, but in great quantities upon the head. 1887J. W. Matthews Incwadi Yami, or Twenty Yrs. S. Afr. xiii. 186 The natives had not yet acquired a knowledge of the value of diamonds or klips as they were then termed. 1892J. R. Couper Mixed Humanity vi. 48 Flogged to death for stealing a ‘klip’ (as the Dutch and many of the Kaffirs call a diamond). 1893T. Reunert Diamonds & Gold S. Afr. i. 6 By this time the attention of every one in that neighbourhood was turned to seeking blink klippe..and during the following year several diamonds were picked up. 1897Pearson's Mag. July 67/1 Fifteen years on that blathted breakwater, just for being found with a few little klips on you. 1911L. Cohen Remin. Kimberley 35 ‘I'll show you the klip. Here it is.’ With that he pulled out his snuffbox..; inside was a fairly sized beautiful octahedron diamond. 1967L. G. Green Like Diamond Blazing xiii. 144, I met old Hottentots who remembered Luderitz; they said he had two little boxes of blink klippies..and that he carried these diamonds with him.
2. A stone, pebble.
1852C. Barter Dorp & Veld vi. 50 Stooping to set large klips (stones) behind the wheel, to prevent the wagon from slipping back. 1899A. Werner Captain of Locusts 63 She left me when we were on the trek over into Basutoland..and the boys and I could only cut a cross on the thorn-tree..and put a heap of klippies to mark the spot.
Hence klip v. trans., to place a stone behind (a wheel) in order to prevent a vehicle from rolling backwards.
1878H. A. Roche On Trek in Transvaal iv. 91 We crawling into the wagon, the wheels of which were ‘klipped’, to keep us from running down the hill, trying to nap at intervals. |