• agterryer - attendant on horseback
• askoek - bread baked under the ash
• baas - master
• Boy - native man
• beskuit - rusks
• bos-apie - a thick tailed lemur
• disselboom - pole of wagon or cart
• dagga - wild hemp
• Duiwelskantoor - Devil's office
• Groenpunt - Greenpoint
• gallamsiekte - splenic fever, a cattle disease
• gebreide - cured or prepared
• hamel - wether
• Hulpfonds - Relief Fund
• katel - bed-frame with leather thongs interlaced across it
• kraal - native village
• likkewane - iguanas, leguans
• missus - mistress
• ou - old
• Piekie - dwarf
• padkos - food for journey
• randjie - ridge
• riem - leather thong
• riempie - small leather thong
• strop - leather thong used with yokes of oxen
• tou - leather thong used for leading a span of oxen
• touleier - a leader of a span of oxen
• tabak - tobacco
• Tant - Aunt
• trolley - small wagon
• velskoene - home made shoes
• Voorsitter - Chairman
• voorloper - leader of a span of oxen
• Vrederegter - Justice of the Peace
• vetkoekie - unsweetened doughnut
• Witrug - literally, White Back
• vlei - swamp

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