Kieft
Proper noun
Meaning
Kieft (plural Kiefts)
A surname from Dutch.
Examples
After Kieft left for Serie A club Pisa the next season, Van Basten solidified his position as the team's main attacker.
But soon after that, the Dutch governor, Kieft, sent his men out there one night and massacred the entire population.
Kieft's War and the Remonstrance of New Netherland main Willem Kieft was Director New Netherland from 1638 until 1647.
Jennings, p.117 Director Willem Kieft objected to the landing of the Swedes, but Minuit ignored him, since he knew that the Dutch were militarily impotent at the moment.
In 1642 the new director-general Willem Kieft decided to build a stone church within the fort.
Kieft suggested that they be taught a lesson by ransacking their villages.