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- noun Plural form of
springboc .
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Examples
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Rupert was fully as successful as he expected; a couple of pallahs, three springbocs, and a buffalo being the result of the expedition, in addition to the quaggas, and all within the radius of a couple of miles.
Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Sheltering my wife with my shield, as she clung to my arm, I sprang with her through the opening, over the bodies of my slaughtered followers, and before our enemies knew we had gone we were running like springbocs down the hill.
Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Scarcely half an hour passed, that a herd of grotesque gnus, with the heads of bisons and horns of oxen, or of graceful quaggas, swift blesbocs, or light and elegant springbocs, did not pass in sight, in hundreds, or rather in thousands, across the plain.
Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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