Also lechwi, leechwe. [Sechuana: cf. Sesuto letsa antelope.] A South African water-buck, Kobus leche.
1857. Livingstone, Trav., iii. 71. We discovered an entirely new species of antelope called leche or lechwi. It is a beautiful water-antelope of a light brownish-yellow colour.
1863. W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, 247. My driver told me … that he was a man who could shoot a leche ram.
1893. Selous, Trav. S. E. Africa, 450. The graceful water-loving leechwe antelopes.
