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kloof
kloof
noun
a deep ravine
1916John BuchanGreenmantleSo Peter and I went up on each side of him, taking an arm apiece, as I had once seen done to a man with vertigo in the Kloof Chimney on Table Mountain.1917H. Rider HaggardFinishedIt stood on a green and swelling mound behind which was a wooded kloof where ran a stream that at last precipitated itself in a waterfall over a great cliff.1977Wilbur SmithA Sparrow Falls...Baines Kloof where the mountain fell away on his left hand sheer into the valley…

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