kopje

IPA: kˈɔpjɛ

Examples of "kopje" in Sentences

We shall contest every river, every crossroads, every village, every town, and every kopje.
At the Manharen, a peculiar kind of kopje, we halted, but had to retreat further towards evening.
The central rendezvous beside the Newcastle road was well protected by a high rocky hill, which one can only call a kopje now.
The cotton lands were dominated by a rocky, tree-and aloe-covered hill, which we referred to as a kopje but to me was really a small mountain.
Some mornings we stopped on a kopje and made a small fire and Dad fried up eggs and steak in an old pan and we washed them down with flask coffee.
The Boers subsequently succeeded in removing the piece during the night, although its descent from the kopje was a task of some serious labour and took two hours.
It was there when I rode Charm alone through the tiger-spider-web-draped wilderness on the high kopje, where sometimes only a single bird sang, like a harbinger of doom.
The summit of the kopje was a plateau, all the sides being gradual slopes except the eastern, which was almost sheer, this latter being the side from which access had been gained.
The first, which we may call the Fort, consists of a line of wall, in parts double, defending the more accessible parts of the eastern and south-eastern end of the hill or kopje, which is about 500 feet high, and breaks down on its southern side in a nearly vertical sheet of granite.