Afrikaans–English dictionary
English translation of the Afrikaans word wal
| Afrikaans | English (translated indirectly) | Esperanto |
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🔗 Die Spaanse seevaarder Juan Díaz de Solis was in die jaar 1515 die eerste Europeër wat in Uruguay voet aan wal gesit en met die verkenning van die monding van die Río de la Plata begin het. | ||
disembark | ||
🔗 Willem is intussen amptelik genooi om aan die inval deel te neem en op 5 November 1688 het hy by Brixham in Suidwes‐Engeland aan wal gegaan. | ||
| Afrikaans | English |
|---|---|
| wal | bank; beach; embankment; mound; quay; rampart; roll; shore; wall; weir |
| aan laer wal | down and out |
| aan wal | ashore; on shore; on land |
| aan wal gaan | disembark |
| van die wal in die sloot | out of the frying‐pan into the fire; from the frying‐pan into the fire |
| van wal steek | launch; launch out; put out to sea |
| damwal | barrage; dam; dike; embankment |
| dwarswal | diversion; mole; traverse; weir |
| grondwal | earth‐bank |
| keerwal | coffer‐dam |
| laerwal | lee shore |
| loefwal | weather‐shore |
| lywal | lee shore |
| noodwal | emergency embankment |
| omwal | circumvallate; mound; rampart |
| rivierwal | riverbank |
| sandwal | sowback |
| seewal | sea‐wall |
| spoorwal | bank; embankment; railway embankment |
| spoorwegwal | railway embankment |
| teenwal | counterscarp |
| vestingwal | rampart |
| walgooier | ditcher |