Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga.
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Donga
//ˈdɔŋɡə//
Synonyms for "donga" (77 found)
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Afrikaans
1 entries- donga noun (dry, eroded watercourse)
German
1 entries- Donga noun (dry, eroded watercourse)
Sample sentences
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There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers.
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Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas.
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Count yourself lucky not to be a prisoner in the car at this moment, speeding away, or at the bottom of a donga with a bullet in your head.
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