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Mealie

noun

An ear of corn.

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"Mealie" Quotes from Famous Books

... the back of your house is an old cattle kraal made by Kaffirs, and in that cattle kraal, as I have seen, there are mealie-pits where those Kaffirs stored their grain. Now I suggest that we should put my husband into one of those mealie-pits and cover it over. There the Boers might not find him, ...

— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard

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... rocks. But just before you come to Durban there is a peculiar richness about the landscape. There are the sheer kloofs cut in the hills by the rushing rains of centuries, down which the rivers sparkle; there is the deepest green of the bush, growing as God planted it, and the other greens of the mealie gardens and the sugar patches, while now and again a white house, smiling out at the placid sea, puts a finish and gives an air of homeliness to the scene. For to my mind, however beautiful a view may be, it requires the presence of man to make it complete, but perhaps ...

— King Solomon's Mines • H. Rider Haggard

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Words linked to "Mealie" : spike, capitulum, ear, South Africa, Republic of South Africa