nounplural noun middelmannetjies

• A ridge between the wheel ruts of an unsurfaced road.

  ‘the car has a high clearance so is easy to drive on roads with high middelmannetjies’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The front wheel seemed to be stuck on the middelmannetjie with the back wheel changing lanes over it.’
  • ‘The roads have high middelmannetjies, which tough 4x4s with high ground clearance can handle.’
  • ‘The middelmannetjie is high enough in some places that we had to choose alternate paths.’
  • ‘As the grass in the middelmannetjie was almost shoulder high, we stopped every few kilometres to check the vehicles as a precaution against fire.’
  • ‘Right at the end, a severe axle twister with a high middelmannetjie can only be conquered by vehicles with high ground clearance.’