Definition of "sassaby" []

• A South African antelope (Damaliscus lunatus) having curved ridged horns. (noun)

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• "[386-2] The sassaby is a large African antelope, resembling the hartbeest, but having regularly curved horns."
• "I had just cooked my breakfast, and commenced to feed, when I heard my men exclaim, "Almagtig keek de ghroote clomp cameel;" and, raising my eyes from the sassaby [386-2] stew, I beheld a truly beautiful and very unusual scene."
• "On, swifter than a sassaby and surer-footed than a fox; now the worst of the road was passed, and a long, smooth slope, almost free from stones, led them to the grassy plain beneath."