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

Not very far from the place where our meeting had been held I passed a side street then in embryo, for it had only one or two houses situated in their gardens and a rather large and muddy sluit of water running down one side at the edge of the footpath.

Fair in the middle he caught that white man, causing him to double up, fly backwards and land with a most resounding splash in the deepest part of the muddy sluit.

And where did they run the waggon of the Republic to—Burghers and those damned Hollanders of his, and the rest of them? Why, into the _sluit_—into a _sluit_ with peaty banks; and there it would have stopped till now, or till the flood came down and swept it away, if old Shepstone—ah! what a tongue that man has, and how fond he is of the _kinderchies!_ (little children)—had not come and pulled it out again.

One day, in the course of a walk, John and Jess crossed the little bridge that spanned the _sluit_ and went in to inspect the place.

She filled a glass she had brought with her half full of water from a little irrigation furrow that ran down from the main _sluit_ by the road, and then topped it up with brandy.