Definitions

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  • noun South Africa A small minecart.

Etymologies

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Nguni nqukumbana.

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Examples

  • He picked up a piece of stone and tapped the cocopan with it.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • The whole side of his body was stiff and sore but he could not turn over, his knees caught on the cocopan every time he tried and the air in his little cave was starting to taste stale, his head ached.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • Two natives pushing a cocopan back along the railway lines forced him to flatten himself against one wall to allow them to pass and while he waited he felt inside his overalls for his cigar case.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • Blinded by the swirling dust fog he crashed at full run into the abandoned cocopan that blocked the tunnel, he sprawled over the metal body of the trolley with his thighs bruised from the collision.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • They cleared the last few lumps of rock and with their shoulders touching knelt and peered under the cocopan.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • The cocopan was gone by that time so he stooped to pick up the case.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • At the back of the hole it left in the wall they could see the corner of the cocopan.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • Now I'm finished, he thought, but instinctively he pulled himself up and started to grope his way around the cocopan to continue his flight.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • Mbejane reached under the cocopan and with his hands under Sean's armpits pulled him out.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

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