Crossword-Solution: ROERS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

There were none of your old roers[1] and decrepit Enfields, which I had seen signs of in Kaffir kraals.

Marie, how many guns are there?” “Four,” she answered, “of my father’s; two _roers_ and two smaller ones.” “And how many of these men”—and I pointed to the Kaffirs—“can shoot?” “Three well and one badly, Allan.” “Good,” I said.

They met no man, black or white, and supported themselves upon game, which they shot and ate raw or sun-dried, till at length all their powder was done and they threw away their heavy _roers_, which they could no longer carry.

Now please talk no more nonsense to us, which it makes us sick to hear, and don’t think that you can slip away because we are only two, for you know our _roers_ are loaded with slugs, and we have orders to use them.” “There,” I said when I had shut the door, “now you have heard for yourselves.

Our hope was that the sound of these guns might terrify the foe, should there be occasion to use them before our forces joined up again, and make them think they had to do with a body of raiding Dutch white men, of whose _roers_—as the heavy elephant guns of that day were called—all natives were much afraid.