Crossword-Solution: DIKKOP 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Indeed, she seemed to be all eyes, like a _dikkop_ or thick-headed plover; at any rate, I noted little else about her.

Among those who formed this party were Charlie Considine, Hans Marais, Sandy Black and his satellite Jerry Goldboy, Andrew Rivers, Diederik and Christian Muller, and the tall black-bearded hunter Lucas Van Dyk, besides Slinger, Dikkop, and other Hottentots and Bushmen.

Jerry mounted with an ill-suppressed groan and rode back to the party, leaning very much forward in the saddle, while Dikkop followed, showing the white teeth in his dirty black visage from ear to ear.

More moderate souls, like Sandy Black, said they would be satisfied merely to _see_ him, while Slinger and Dikkop, with their brethren, declared that they wanted to _eat_ him.

Darkness falls swiftly; the huge vault of sky assumes its deep indigo hue of night; the stars spring forth in glittering array; there is a wonderful and refreshing coolness in the air; the cry of one or two night birds may be heard--the dikkop and kiewitje plovers--and the distant wail of a prowling jackal.