"sloot" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Afrikaans sloot, from Dutch sloot, from Middle Dutch slote, sloot, from Old Dutch *slōt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.",
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      "form": "sloots",
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      "glosses": [
        "A ditch."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Africa) A ditch."
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        {
          "ref": "1901 April 26, “The March Rains”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 4, page 101",
          "text": "Gorton, Ixopo, continues to suffer from prolonged drought. The Ixopo has not been so low for the last fifty years. Some sluits around here have ceased running.",
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        }
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        "An irrigation channel."
      ],
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        "(South Africa, archaic) An irrigation channel."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsluːt/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsluːɪt/"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sluit"
    }
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  "word": "sloot"
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        "A ditch."
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        "(South Africa) A ditch."
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        }
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      "ipa": "/ˈsluːt/"
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    {
      "word": "sluit"
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