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rooibok S. Afr.|ˈrɔɪbɒk|
Also roibok, roodebok, rooibuck, rooye bok.
[Afrikaans, f. rooi red + bok buck.]
= impala.
1824W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. xi. 215 One [antelope] is called Paala (Parla) by the Bichuanas, and is known by the name of Roodebok (Redbuck). 1835A. Smith Diary 27 Aug. (1940) II. 182 They had much difficulty in getting them to..carry the flesh of a rooye bok. 1866T. Leask Diary 12 May (1954) 44 Saw some rooibok, but felt too done up to go after them. 1875[see impala]. 1896H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. 65 Smallfield..had shot a good rooibok. 1926Glasgow Herald 31 Aug. 2/6 He had got a rooibuck (or impala) ram. 1932Fuller & Fouche Louis Trigardt's Trek vi. 65 He told..about a rooibok and two geese they had shot. 1947[see impala]. 1968L. G. Green Full Many a Glorious Morning 189 Palapye Road, named by an extinct tribe after the rooibok, was once the site of the ‘post office tree’. |