bushveld
(ˈbʊʃfɛlt, -vɛlt)
Also bush veldt.
[ad. Afrikaans bosveld: see bush n.1 and veld.]
a. Veld composed largely of bush. b. (Usu. with capital initial.) The wooded region of north-western, northern, and eastern Transvaal, the low-lying portion of which is called the Lowveld or Low Country.
| 1879 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 Mar. 134/2 For big game, the low country and Bushveld is that part of the Transvaal which the hunter must seek. 1887 Atàlanta Nov. 80/1 The roar of a lion..in the solemn bush veldt. 1887 A. A. Anderson Twenty-five Yrs. in Waggon (1888) 153 The Notuane River, in what is termed the Bush Veldt. 1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 333 An efficient guide, whose knowledge of the dense bushveld proved of great value. 1903 Kipling Five Nations 205 The Low Bush-veldt that sends men stragglin' unaware. 1903 ‘Indicus’ Labour S. Africa 19 Their farm is of about 5,000 acres in extent, on the lower or Bush Veldt. 1907 J. P. Fitzpatrick Jock of Bushveld 14 Between the goldfields and the nearest port lay the Bushveld. 1940 V. Pohl Bushveld Adv. i. 41 My family had moved to the Bushveld of the Northern Transvaal. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1961) vii. 126 Soon the main stream carried us away from the bush-veld banks. |