Also steenboc(k, -buck, steinboc(k, -bok, -buck, stembok. [Du. steenbok, f. steen STONE sb. + bok BUCK sb.1 Cf. STEINBOCK.] A small South African antelope, Rhaphiceros campestris.
1775. Masson, Journ. Cape, in Phil. Trans., LXVI. 295. Some had the skin of a steenbock hung over their breast.
1850. R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Afr. (1902), 157/2. Returning … I shot a steinbok.
1893. F. C. Selous, Trav. S. E. Africa, 431. He has shot every kind of game in Africa, from a steinbuck to an elephant.
1894. Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., II. 307. Although the name steinbok is properly restricted to a single species of antelope, it will be found [etc.].
1913. C. Pettman, Africanderisms, Steenbok…. Raphiceris campestris. The word is frequently corrupted to Stembok.
