kopje
- n a small hill rising up from the African veld
- Swift, even melodramatic though The Turning Wheels is, many a reader will come an early cropper over words like baas, kopje, kloof, veldt, mevrou, spruit with which its text is .
- They sit and socialize on the lower rocks of their high kopje, grooming one another with a sweet absorption, playing with their babies.
- They are feeding on the buds of an acacia tree not far from the granite kopje where they sleep.