S. Africa. Also -feldt, zureveld. [Cape Du., = sour country or pasture land: see SOUR, VELD.] A district covered with sour pasturage. Also attrib.
1834. Pringle, Afr. Sk., vi. 203. Long, coarse, wiry grass, of the sort called sour (whence the names Zureberg and Zureveld).
1850. R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Afr. (ed. 2), I. 13. Black, zuur-feldt oxen.
