kopje

noun

1. (South-Africa)A small hill or mound, especially on the African veld.

   “In one spot only was the solemn monotony of the plain broken. Near the center a small solitary “kopje” rose. Alone it lay there, a heap of round ironstones piled one upon the other, as over some giant’s grave.”

   “We selected a lichenous kopje perhaps fifteen yards away, and landed neatly on its summit one after the other.”

   “It was nearly noon when he reached the great bowlder at the top of which terminated the secret passage to the pits beneath the city. Like a cat he scaled the precipitous sides of the frowning granite kopje.”

   “Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; […] and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes.”

   “On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.”