sand-hilln.

Etymology: sand n.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsand-hill.

a. A hill or bank of sand; esp. a dune on the sea-shore.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > sand-hill

sand-hillc725

dene1278

down1523

sand down1604

dune1605

hummock1793

towan1803

sand-dune1830

medano1839

sea-bank1858

barchan1888

whaleback1918

fore-dune1921

seif1925

c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) A 440 Alga, scaldhyflas uel sondhyllas.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 464/2 Sond hylle, or pytte, sorica.

a1603 F. Vere Comm. 88 The space betwixt the sea and the sand-hills or Downs.

1709 M. Prior Lady's Looking-glass 2 Celia and I..Walk'd o'er the Sand-hills to the Sea.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 300 Chains of sand~hills have also accumulated on the shores of the delta of the Nile.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxviii Easily, on the flowing tide,..she has slipped up the channel between the two lines of sand-hill.

1890 Handbk. Lincs. (John Murray) Introd. 26 The sand-hills or ‘dunes’ have little beauty beyond their wildness.

b. sand-hill crane n. a North American crane, Grus canadensis; also absol.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > member of genus Grus > grus canadensis (sand-hill crane)

sand-hill crane1805

sandy hill crane1819

1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 31 Oct. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 359 Jo killed a Sand hill Crane.

1822 J. Fowler Jrnl. 128 Killed one sand hill crain and five gees[e].

1834 J. K. Townsend Narr. Journey Rocky Mts. (1839) i. 12 We observed great numbers of the brown, or sandhill crane,..flying over us.

1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 434 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI These broad prairies, which fifteen years ago were tenanted only..by the prairie-chicken and sand-hill crane.

1894 Outing 24 305/1 The great sand-hill cranes..looking as big as the horses we rode.

1907 W. O. Lillibridge Where Trail Divides 115 He can..stalk a sandhill crane where there isn't cover to hide your hat.

1938 C. H. Matschat Suwannee River 186 He seen the sandhills a-dancin' their matin' dance.

1949 Nat. Hist. Oct. 378/1 Once heard, the far-reaching call of the sand~hill crane is a sound that can never be forgotten.

1960 R. T. Peterson Field Guide Birds Texas 79 Sandhill Crane..A long-legged, long-necked gray bird with a bald red forehead.

1977 New Yorker 9 May 113/1 He had later seen a pair of sandhill cranes.

c. sand-hill rosemary n. a small heath-like evergreen shrub, Ceratiola ericoides.

ΚΠ

1895 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening

d. Canadian. plural. A region of south-eastern Alberta; in the mythology of Plains Indians, the abode of departed spirits.

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the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > non-Christian

heaveneOE

other worldOE

paradise?a1425

pantheon?1545

Olympus1582

Hesperidesa1592

tian1613

afterworld1615

Swarga1734

goddery1811

Pure Land1819

Reinga1820

Tir-na-nog1889

Jodo1901

sand-hill1949

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of

north-west1682

down east1817

Atlantic provinces1855

prairie province1873

prairie provinces1878

mainland1901

maritimes1926

Palliser triangle1934

Newfie1942

sand-hill1949

Near North1952

1949 J. G. MacGregor Blankets & Beads 113 Nothing marks the spot where some mighty chief or minor brave sleeps, while his spirit travels the trails of the Great Sand Hills.

1957 Camsell Arrow (Edmonton, Alberta) Christmas 77/1 The sun dance site is in the heart of the 50-mile-square Blood reserve about 40 miles south of Lethbridge. There are situated the sacred sand hills and the happy hunting grounds for departed spirits.

1959 N. Sluman Blackfoot Crossing 13 Little Tree would have to go unadorned to the Sand Hills, for her daughter could not part with the red glass beads.

1963 R. D. Symons Many Trails xiii. 138 He [sc. a missionary] had been saying that it would not be long now before he [sc. an Indian] would be called to the Sand~hills.

1975 Alberta Hist. Spring 16/2 Indians tell that a blizzard came up and blue and yellow lightning coloured the sky when Wolf Collar's ghost departed for the Sand Hills, the home of the dead.

Derivatives

ˈsand-hiller n. one of a class of ‘poor whites’ living in the pine-woods that cover the sandy hills of Georgia and South Carolina.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > poor white person

cracker1766

poor white1781

dirt-eater1802

sand-hiller1848

piney-woods cracker1872

piney-wood tacky1888

tacky1888

peck1924

peckerwood1928

trailer trash1943

pecker1966

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of

New Englander1637

bayman1641

New English1647

Novangle1650

Novanglian1752

Yankee1765

cracker1766

Yank?1778

bushwhacker1809

tuckahoe1816

southerner1817

Yengees1819

muskrat1823

blue belly1827

half horse and half alligator1828

Southron1828

northerner1831

westerner1835

Northman1836

Easterner1838

Far-Wester1843

southwesterner1845

western1846

sand-hiller1848

Vineyarder1851

mountain boomer1859

Far Westerner1862

blue-nosed Yankee1866

Appalachian1888

sloper1892

Ozarkian1893

rebel1895

reb1897

Middle Westerner1899

hillbilly1900

Midwesterner1916

Ozarker1920

Geechee1926

Middle American1944

upstater1944

Mid-American1959

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > specifically white

cracker1766

stinkard1777

sand-hiller1848

piney-woods cracker1872

piney-wood tacky1888

tacky1888

1848 Congress. Globe 30th Congress 1st Sess. App. 137/1 The thing is whispered even among the sandhillers of South Carolina.

1850 E. P. Burke Reminisc. Georgia 205 These people are known at the South by such names as crackers, clay-eaters, and sand-hillers.

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 506 The sand-hillers..are small, gaunt, and cadaverous, and their skin is just the color of the sand-hills they live on.

1872 Kansas Mag. Mar. 238/1 Who that has seen the ‘clay-eater’, the ‘sandhiller’, or the ‘piney woods cracker’ of the South, does not know that it is impossible to exaggerate the sinfulness which looks out through the loop-holes of his red apologies for eyes?

1944 B. A. Botkin Treasury Amer. Folklore ii. 322 Such derogatory nicknames as..sand-hillers, pineywoods tackies, hill-billies.

1958 H. Babcock I don't want to shoot Elephant 155 Barefooted and shirtless, the sandhiller was sprawled listlessly on the porch when I arrived.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	sand-hill
释义	sand-hilln. Etymology: sand n.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsand-hill. a. A hill or bank of sand; esp. a dune on the sea-shore. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > sand-hill sand-hillc725 dene1278 down1523 sand down1604 dune1605 hummock1793 towan1803 sand-dune1830 medano1839 sea-bank1858 barchan1888 whaleback1918 fore-dune1921 seif1925 c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) A 440 Alga, scaldhyflas uel sondhyllas. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 464/2 Sond hylle, or pytte, sorica. a1603 F. Vere Comm. 88 The space betwixt the sea and the sand-hills or Downs. 1709 M. Prior Lady's Looking-glass 2 Celia and I..Walk'd o'er the Sand-hills to the Sea. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 300 Chains of sand~hills have also accumulated on the shores of the delta of the Nile. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxviii Easily, on the flowing tide,..she has slipped up the channel between the two lines of sand-hill. 1890 Handbk. Lincs. (John Murray) Introd. 26 The sand-hills or ‘dunes’ have little beauty beyond their wildness. b. sand-hill crane n. a North American crane, Grus canadensis; also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > member of genus Grus > grus canadensis (sand-hill crane) sand-hill crane1805 sandy hill crane1819 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 31 Oct. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 359 Jo killed a Sand hill Crane. 1822 J. Fowler Jrnl. 128 Killed one sand hill crain and five gees[e]. 1834 J. K. Townsend Narr. Journey Rocky Mts. (1839) i. 12 We observed great numbers of the brown, or sandhill crane,..flying over us. 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 434 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI These broad prairies, which fifteen years ago were tenanted only..by the prairie-chicken and sand-hill crane. 1894 Outing 24 305/1 The great sand-hill cranes..looking as big as the horses we rode. 1907 W. O. Lillibridge Where Trail Divides 115 He can..stalk a sandhill crane where there isn't cover to hide your hat. 1938 C. H. Matschat Suwannee River 186 He seen the sandhills a-dancin' their matin' dance. 1949 Nat. Hist. Oct. 378/1 Once heard, the far-reaching call of the sand~hill crane is a sound that can never be forgotten. 1960 R. T. Peterson Field Guide Birds Texas 79 Sandhill Crane..A long-legged, long-necked gray bird with a bald red forehead. 1977 New Yorker 9 May 113/1 He had later seen a pair of sandhill cranes. c. sand-hill rosemary n. a small heath-like evergreen shrub, Ceratiola ericoides. ΚΠ 1895 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening d. Canadian. plural. A region of south-eastern Alberta; in the mythology of Plains Indians, the abode of departed spirits. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > non-Christian heaveneOE other worldOE paradise?a1425 pantheon?1545 Olympus1582 Hesperidesa1592 tian1613 afterworld1615 Swarga1734 goddery1811 Pure Land1819 Reinga1820 Tir-na-nog1889 Jodo1901 sand-hill1949 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of north-west1682 down east1817 Atlantic provinces1855 prairie province1873 prairie provinces1878 mainland1901 maritimes1926 Palliser triangle1934 Newfie1942 sand-hill1949 Near North1952 1949 J. G. MacGregor Blankets & Beads 113 Nothing marks the spot where some mighty chief or minor brave sleeps, while his spirit travels the trails of the Great Sand Hills. 1957 Camsell Arrow (Edmonton, Alberta) Christmas 77/1 The sun dance site is in the heart of the 50-mile-square Blood reserve about 40 miles south of Lethbridge. There are situated the sacred sand hills and the happy hunting grounds for departed spirits. 1959 N. Sluman Blackfoot Crossing 13 Little Tree would have to go unadorned to the Sand Hills, for her daughter could not part with the red glass beads. 1963 R. D. Symons Many Trails xiii. 138 He [sc. a missionary] had been saying that it would not be long now before he [sc. an Indian] would be called to the Sand~hills. 1975 Alberta Hist. Spring 16/2 Indians tell that a blizzard came up and blue and yellow lightning coloured the sky when Wolf Collar's ghost departed for the Sand Hills, the home of the dead. Derivatives ˈsand-hiller n. one of a class of ‘poor whites’ living in the pine-woods that cover the sandy hills of Georgia and South Carolina. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > poor white person cracker1766 poor white1781 dirt-eater1802 sand-hiller1848 piney-woods cracker1872 piney-wood tacky1888 tacky1888 peck1924 peckerwood1928 trailer trash1943 pecker1966 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of New Englander1637 bayman1641 New English1647 Novangle1650 Novanglian1752 Yankee1765 cracker1766 Yank?1778 bushwhacker1809 tuckahoe1816 southerner1817 Yengees1819 muskrat1823 blue belly1827 half horse and half alligator1828 Southron1828 northerner1831 westerner1835 Northman1836 Easterner1838 Far-Wester1843 southwesterner1845 western1846 sand-hiller1848 Vineyarder1851 mountain boomer1859 Far Westerner1862 blue-nosed Yankee1866 Appalachian1888 sloper1892 Ozarkian1893 rebel1895 reb1897 Middle Westerner1899 hillbilly1900 Midwesterner1916 Ozarker1920 Geechee1926 Middle American1944 upstater1944 Mid-American1959 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > specifically white cracker1766 stinkard1777 sand-hiller1848 piney-woods cracker1872 piney-wood tacky1888 tacky1888 1848 Congress. Globe 30th Congress 1st Sess. App. 137/1 The thing is whispered even among the sandhillers of South Carolina. 1850 E. P. Burke Reminisc. Georgia 205 These people are known at the South by such names as crackers, clay-eaters, and sand-hillers. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 506 The sand-hillers..are small, gaunt, and cadaverous, and their skin is just the color of the sand-hills they live on. 1872 Kansas Mag. Mar. 238/1 Who that has seen the ‘clay-eater’, the ‘sandhiller’, or the ‘piney woods cracker’ of the South, does not know that it is impossible to exaggerate the sinfulness which looks out through the loop-holes of his red apologies for eyes? 1944 B. A. Botkin Treasury Amer. Folklore ii. 322 Such derogatory nicknames as..sand-hillers, pineywoods tackies, hill-billies. 1958 H. Babcock I don't want to shoot Elephant 155 Barefooted and shirtless, the sandhiller was sprawled listlessly on the porch when I arrived. 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