Meaning of middelmannetjie in English:
middelmannetjie
nounplural noun middelmannetjies
South AfricanA 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’- ‘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.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Afrikaans, literally ‘little man in the middle’.
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