Potch – Abbreviation of Potchefstroom, a Transvaal town
kappie – sun bonnet
dorp – village
stoep – covered veranda or open porch
commando – mounted militia unit
agterryer – mounted groom or other attendant
kraal – enclosure for farm animals
kaffir – mode of address or reference to a black person, now extremely offensive
volk – in this context, farmhands
burgher – a citizen with militia duties
mealie – maize
vrede – peace
verwoesting – devastation
inspan – to harness draught animals
koppie – hillock
miesies – servant’s mode of address to mistress of a household
outa – mode of address or reference to an elderly black man
khaki – Boer name for a British soldier
ouma – grandmother
touleier – young boy leading a team of oxen
dominee – Dutch Reformed clergyman