veld
Also veldt, velt.
1. In South Africa, the unenclosed country or open pasture-land.
Freq. with defining terms denoting character or locality, as bush-, grass-, high, low, sour, sweet veld. Hence occas. in pl.(quot. 1876).
1785 ,1801 [see next sense].1835 A. STEEDMAN Wanderings S. Afr. I. II. i. 92 Here for the first time we bivouacked in what is called the Veld.1852 C. BARTER Dorp & Veld 43 My preference for a less confined sleeping-place on the open ‘veld’.1863 W. C. BALDWIN Afr. Hunting ix. 404 The velt is now full of a poisonous herb, which is certain death in a few hours to oxen.1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 42/1 The pastoral lands or velds..are distinguished according to the nature of the grass or sedge which they produce as ‘sweet’ or ‘sour’.1892 Tablet 13 Aug. 260 The priest lived under a tent on the veld.
1862 COLENSO Pentateuch I. 114 Joseph..wandering alone upon the veldt in search of his brethren.1879 Daily News 28 June 5/6 In the veldt..with a saddle for one's pillow.1888 Times (weekly ed.) 25 May 7/3 Streets and squares and public buildings, where a year and a half ago was nothing but the boundless veldt.
-OED
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