Zulun.adj.

1839 W. C. Harris Wild Sports S. Afr. 150 Andries..possessed a smattering of zooloo, and we thus hoped to be able to proceed without the aid of a sworn interpreter.

1844 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 1 50 The Zulu alphabet..contains the same letters as the English... The English language abounds with short words, but in the Zulu such words are very few.

1850 J. S. Christopher Natal 137 The Zulu alphabet.

1857 Döhne Zulu-Kafir Dict. Introd. p. xxxviii The Zulu, as the high language, has ever exercised a controlling influence upon the low languages.

1861 Colenso Zulu-Eng. Dict. p. v The Zulu for dog is commonly spelt inja.

1869 W. H. I. Bleek in R. Noble Cape & its People 272 The Zulu noun a-ba-ntu ‘men, people’.

1900 Speaker 24 Feb. 551/2 What we want is competent officials, with knowledge of Zulu.

1898 Speaker 29 Oct. 515 General utility flies... Such are the red tag, the Zulu, the blue dun, the snipewing.

1901 Field 9 Nov. 739 I put up a fine cast with three biggish flies tied on fine gut (a March brown, a Zulu, and a black palmer).

1880 Girl's Own Paper 27 Nov. 144/1 Wreaths of grapes and a few poppies serve best as trimming for a Zulu hat.

1893 C. M. Yonge & C. R. Coleridge Strolling Players viii. 54 She had managed, while seizing a Zulu hat, to divest herself of the apron.

1895 Beerbohm in Yellow Bk. Jan. 280 Zulu hats shaded their faces.

1941 F. Thompson Over to Candleford x. 144 Both [children] wore what were then known as Zulu hats, plaited of rushes and very wide brimmed.

1884 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. 16 122 Ten or twelve boats of the carvel-zulu shape have been built.

1905 Banffshire Jrnl. 28 Mar. A place for biggin heerin' boats Zulus, Fifies—best afloat.

1952 G. Maxwell Harpoon at Venture (1955) ii. 37 She was a seventy-foot ‘zulu’, lugsail-rigged, and with two Kelvin paraffin engines.

1963 P. MacTyre Fish on Hook iii. 43 MacAra's window looked on to the jibs of disused cranes and the carcasses of two rotting ‘Zulu’ boats.

1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 964/2 Zulu, a type of fishing vessel peculiar to the north-east coastal ports of Scotland... They were..first produced during the Zulu War (1878–9), hence their name.

1960 ‘N. Shute’ Trustee from Toolroom 104 We'll have a meal..at twenty-three zulu—at eleven o'clock English time.

1976 B. Jackson Flameout (1977) v. 90 ‘Check Zulu 10.50.28,’ he said, using airmen's and Air Traffic Control jargon for time... ‘Okay. The line after Zulu 10.50.30.’

1978 J. M. Pasachoff & M. L. Kutner University Astron. v. 125 Astronomers often keep track of events according to the standard solar time that corresponds to the Greenwich time zone. This is called G.M.T. (Greenwich Mean Time), U.T. (Universal Time), or Z (which is colloquially called Zulu Time).

1981 T. Barling Bikini Red North zii. 260 Projected detonation deadline at fourteen-hundred hours, Zulu Time.

1882 P. Robinson Noah's Ark i The lion, again, they say, is King in Africa, yet the gorilla Zulus it over the forests within the lion's territory.

1876 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 28 Jan. 166/2 Into the heart of savage Zuludom.

1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Aug. 7/1 Death of John Dunn. A Zuluized Englishman.