S. Africa. [Du., f. strand STRAND sb.1 + looper runner.]
1. A Hottentot who picks up such living as he can by the sea shore (Pettman, Africanderisms, 1913).
1846. J. Sutherland, Mem. Kaffirs, etc. S. Afr., II. 29. For a little tobacco the strandloopers will always fetch firewood for the cooks.
1913. Daily News, 16 Dec., 9. The Strandlopers lived on the coast before the Dutch went into South Africa.
2. (See quot.)
1875–84. R. B. Sharpe, Layard’s Birds S. Africa, 662. Ægialitis tricollaris (Vieill.)…. This pretty little Plover, the Strandlooper of the colonists, is common throughout the colony.
