bastard hartebeest

English

Noun

bastard hartebeest (plural bastard hartebeests or bastard hartebeest)

1. The sassaby.
   • 1871 August 20, [Thomas] Baines, quotee, “Exploration. Exploration and Hunting in South Africa.”, in The Australasian, volume XII, number 323, Melbourne, Vic., published 1872 June 8, page 710, column 3:

     We saw a small herd of sassadybies, or bastard hartebeesten, and in getting a long shot at one of them I passed so close to a leopard or panther, that I might have killed it, had I seen it before it escaped.