sand-bags

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• Sand

  ·noun Courage; pluck; grit. II. Sand ·vt To drive upon the sand. III. Sand ·noun A single particle...

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• trolly-bags

  tripe. Cumb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• earth-bags

  See sand-bags. ...

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• gunny-bags

  The sacks used on the India station for holding rice, biscuit, &c.; often as sand-bags in fortificat...

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• hawse-bags

  Canvas bags filled with oakum, used in heavy seas to stop the hawse-holes and prevent the water comi...

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• powder-bags

  Leathern bags containing from 20 to 40 lbs. of powder; substituted for petards at the instance of Lo...

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• Sand-blind

  ·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. ...

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• Sand-lot

  ·add. ·adj Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, — hence, pert. to, or characteristic...

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• Sand Wharf

  See Wheatsheaf Wharf. ...

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• sand shark

  See blind shark ...

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• sand-lark

  n. name given in Australia to the Red-capped Dottrel, Charadrius ruficapilla, Temm. 1867. W. Richa...

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• sand-stay

  n. a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sand-flea

  (Genus, orchestra. Leach.) A small crustacea common along the shores of Long Island, and other sandy...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sand-galls

  spots of sand forced up by the oozing of water. Norf. and Suff. ...

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• sand-streak

  See garboard-strake ...

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• quick-sand

  A fine-grained loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight as soon as the water retreats f...

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• sand-drifts

  Hillocks of shifting sands, as on the deserts of Sahara, &c. ...

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• sand-hills

  Mounds of sand thrown up on the sea-shore by winds and eddies. They are mostly destitute of verdure....

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• sand-hopper

  A small creature (Talitra), resembling a shrimp, which abounds on some beaches. ...

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• sand-launce

  ♦ Ammodytes tobianus, a small eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand. ...

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• sand-piper

  A name applied to many species of small wading birds found on the sea-shore and banks of lakes and r...

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• sand-shot

  Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...

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• sand-strake

  A name sometimes given to the garboard-strake. ...

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• sand-warpt

  Left by the tide on a shoal. Also, striking on a shoal at half-flood. ...

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• shifting sand

  A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...

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• sand glass

  See short-time ...

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• rope of sand

  A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...

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• sand and coral bank

  An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...

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