Sand-lot

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• Lot

  Lōt, m. indecl., = Λώτ, Lot, son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham , Prud. Psych. praef. 32; Alcim. ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• Lot

  ·noun A prize in a lottery. II. Lot ·noun The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by cha...

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• Lot

  wrapt up; hidden; covered; myrrh; rosin ...

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• Lot

  (Heb. goral, a "pebble"), a small stone used in casting lots (Num. 33:54; Jonah 1:7). The lot was al...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• lot

  1) In the United States, a piece or division of land; perhaps originally assigned by drawing lots, b...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lot

  The abbreviation of allotment, or allowance to wife or mother. (See allotment.) ...

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• Lot

  (literally a pebble) The custom of deciding doubtful questions by lot is one of great extent and hi...

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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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• Sand-blind

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

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• Sand Wharf

  See Wheatsheaf Wharf. ...

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• sand shark

  See blind shark ...

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

• 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. ...

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

• 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-bags

  Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...

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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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• Zebulun, Lot of

  In Galilee, to the north of Issachar and south of Asher and Naphtali (Josh. 19:10-16), and between t...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• 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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