Kloof

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  • noun. A deep ravine.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A ravine; in Cape Colony and the neighboring settlements, a gully.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end.
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  • noun. A glen; a ravine
    • Word Usage
    "Now we came to a deep "kloof" or cleft in the steep mountain-side, at the bottom of which, half hidden by the masses of ferns and rich rank greenery, trickled a little stream; now to an open space of rough ground, covered only with huge, weather-washed boulders."
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    breakthrough  by-street  byroad  corrugations  dankness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    glen  
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