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Meanings of kopje in English

A small hill rising up from the African veld.

        Usage of kopje in English
        1
        A year of the kopje and the donga had altered all that.
        The Great Boer War
        2
        The kopje was entrenched and everything made comfortable for the following day.
        The Record of a Regiment of the Line / Being a Regimental Histor...
        3
        He began scrambling down the sides of the kopje to go home.
        The Story of an African Farm
        4
        On that kopje to the right there is a commando of Boers.
        Real Soldiers of Fortune
        5
        The sun was rising into a cloudless sky from behind a kopje.
        In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
        6
        One night, two years after, the boy sat alone on the kopje.
        The Story of an African Farm
        7
        The left flank swung forward and encircled the base of an imposing kopje.
        Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) / Lette...
        8
        They walked round the foot of the kopje and past the Kaffer huts.
        The Story of an African Farm
        9
        Two hundred yards intervened between the wall and the crest of the kopje.
        The Great Boer War
        10
        Umlimo was secreted in a cave on the top of a huge kopje.
        Real Soldiers of Fortune
        11
        Then Kritzinger says he left the commando and went up to the kopje.
        In the Shadow of Death
        12
        There was one big kopje that was the very key of the position.
        Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) / Lette...
        13
        You can see the shells bursting on the top of a big kopje.
        In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
        14
        Satisfied, Tarzan turned and retraced his steps toward the summit of the kopje.
        Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
        15
        He sat alone beside it on the top of a kopje.
        Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
        16
        We passed it on our way out to the kopje country.
        Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
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