sand-bedn.
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a. A bed, layer or stratum of sand.
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?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 798/13 Hec sertis, a sandbedde.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sablonniere, a sand bed.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 137 Factitious islands..have been made..by..the aggestion of sands and sand-beds.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 969 Where the strata are connected with rivers, sand-beds filled with water, or marsh lands.
1889 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks x. 303 Micaceous sand-bed.
1889 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks x. 304 It reposes on a sand-bed.
b. transferred. One who ‘absorbs’ much liquor; a toper. Scottish (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. x. 244 That sand-bed, old MacTurk, upon whom whole hogsheads make no impression.
2. Founding. A bed of sand into which the iron from a blast furnace is run; also, any bed of sand in which castings are made.
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1873 R. Hunt Weale's Dict. Terms (at cited word) The side troughs in the sand-bed are called pigs.
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