sandveld
(ˈsændvɛlt, ‖ ˈsæntfɛlt)
Also sand veld, sand-veld, zandveld.
[a. Afrikaans, f. sand sand n.2 + veld veldt, veld.]
In southern Africa, (the name of) a region of light sandy soil.
| 1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. S. Afr. II. ix. 242 The plains on the other side [of the Langberg], are called by the name of Zandveld. 1873 Cape of Good Hope Blue Bk. App. p. JJ3, Several hundred trees have been planted along the main road to Cape Town..on ‘Zandveld’. 1919 S. Afr. Geogr. Jrnl. III. 73 The Free State farmer in the early spring-time treks to the ‘sand veld’ with his stock. 1937 Marais & Sim in D. J. Seymore Handbk. Farmers in S. Afr. (Dept. of Agric. & Forestry, S. Afr.) 704 In the sandveld the production of a grain crop is not easy—the soil is a light sand, not particularly fertile. 1939 ‘D. Rame’ Wine of Good Hope i. xiii. 158 They left the last of the wheat and came to a queer sand-veld. 1944 M. Oldevig Sunny Land vi. 51 The Kalahari, the waterless sandveld of Bechuanaland and South West Africa. 1953 D. Lessing Five iii. 121 This..was farming country,..a pocket of good, dark, rich soil in the wastes of the light sandveld. 1959 [see Africander, Afrikander 3]. 1964 Listener 6 Aug. 192/1 He plants the first rose on the burnt sandveld. |