veldt

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English

Noun

veldt (plural veldts)

  1. Alternative form of veld
    • 1912, Francis Bancroft, The Veldt Dwellers:
      And Thane nodded and staggered blindly upward, only to sag again in a heap upon the veldt.
    • 1995, M. D. D. Newitt, A History of Mozambique
      South of the Zambesi, the frontier-line separates the high veldt and the low veldt regions, the line itself sometimes running along the crest and sometimes through the middle of the broken escarpment []