kop
nounEtymology From Afrikaans kop, from Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop.
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South Africa A hill or mountain.
- […] a zigzag line of Lee-Enfield flashes, and a charge which took the kop at a cost of ten casualties. The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock.2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
- Within three hours, we took the kop. The dead and wounded were everywhere. The Boers had taken the kop, collected their prisoners and had suffered very few casualties. However, they did not have the strength to hold the prisoners […]2014, Colin D. Heaton, Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler, Casemate, →ISBN:
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- A party of burghers, under Commandant Nel, of Kroonstad, were ordered to station themselves on a kop with a flat top, called Swartbooiskop, an hour and a half to the south of Nicholson's Nek.2019, Christiaan Rudolf De Wet, Three Years' War, Good Press:
- Derived terms
- Kopite
- Related terms
- koppie