Also 9 -boo, -bock; and see WATER-BUCK. [a. Du. waterbok, f. water WATER sb. + bok (see BUCK sb.1 1 e).] = WATER-BUCK.
c. 1850. Nat. Encycl., I. 813. The other, a waterboc, was found in Karagŭé.
1863. Speke, Discov. Nile, iii. 36. ‘The bags’ we made counted two brindsled gnŭ, four water-boc, one pallah-boc, and one pig.
1873. Ellen B. Frewer, trans. Schweinfurth’s Hrt. Africa, v. (1878), 160. These antelopes belonged to the Waterboks (Antilope ellipsiprymna)…. The hair of this species of Waterbock is extremely long and soft.
1885. Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888), V. 336. The Waterbok of South Africa (Kobus ellipsiprymnus), which extends through Central Africa up to Abyssinia, where it is known as the Méhedéhet.
