Nek is valid Scrabble Word

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3 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for NEK in dictionary:

NOUN:

(South African) a col, a pass in a mountain range
a mountain col.
mountain pass

Words related to NEK

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Words that contain NEK

neks8 koneke14 nekton10 konekes15 nektons11 rooinek11 kunekune16 nektonic14 rooineks12 kunekunes17

How to use NEK in a sentence

Commando Nek was upon the south-east, facing towards Basutoland.
Onward we swept, until Commando Nek lay like a grinning gash in the face of nature far in our rear.
Presently I met the rest of the Gordons, swinging along the road to crown the heights on either side the nek.
From that point the Helpmakaar road leads straight round a scrubby nek where the Boers have thrown up a formidable series of earthworks.
In that light, subdued though it was, a man crossing the nek would have shown up sharply, and Boer sentries always keep well down where they can watch the sky-line.
The burghers in Slabberts Nek, where we happened to be, were subjected to a dreadful cannon fire.
Thus repulsed by day, the enemy succeeded in scaling the heights to the left of the Boers at Slabberts Nek by an unguarded footpath during the night.
The number of Boers engaged is not known, but the force behind the Nek consisted of several thousands, and no doubt a fair proportion engaged in the fight.
Next minute we were swinging out into the plain, through the low scrub and thorn bush, and as we did so the Boers came through the Nek.
A little farther east Hunter himself forces Retiefs Nek, while farther east still Bruce-Hamilton, helped by Macdonald, is to hold Naawpoort Nek and block the Golden Gate road.

On the morning of the 23rd we struck our camp a few miles north of the Nek, and advanced to find out whether the enemy were in position here or not.
The companies of Irish Rifles, after seizing this hill, passed along the nek which joined it to the ridge and almost won the crest line.
One brigade was sent through the Nek on to the eastward slopes of Monte Cristo, while the other attacked the hill from the south.
The road rises to the Nek between heights, and the initial movements of the attack had to be made across two miles of open veld.
No serious opposition was encountered until early in the afternoon, when Dundonald, who was operating on the right front, came under artillery fire from the Nek.
Hamilton being the ridge on the left of the Nek, and that of the 10th Brigade under Talbot Coke the ridges on the right of it, the 11th Brigade under Wynne being kept in reserve.
The key of the position proved to be a conical hill on the right of the road at the entrance to the Nek.
Then again the Dorsets threw themselves upon the enemy, and by sunset the heights on the right of the Nek were in possession of Coke.
Even the squadron holding Commando Nek was ordered to retire at midday.
It was, therefore, only necessary to head him from Magato Nek, and this was done by Methuen.
When he reached Noitgedacht Nek he found Delarey a few miles away.
The ground on either side of the Nek was occupied by pickets posted there mainly for signalling purposes.
His first exploit was to snap up a weak and isolated British detachment at Modderfontein Nek, and to establish his own commando on the position.
On November 20th the Boers mounted some more guns on Bulwana and also on Umbrella Tree Hill, which lay in the Nek between Bulwana and Gun Hill.
The pass lay over a Nek between two high shoulders of hills.
The Boers, exceedingly well posted, occupied the hills on either side of the Nek, taking cover behind the immense boulders on the summit.
The high hill on the left of the pass was then occupied, and the Nek over which the road passed cleared of Boers.
On they went, running and walking, walking and running, up the slippery road, across the Nek and then down into the valley below.
Two small groups of men were posted in the ditch leading up to the Nek.

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