单词 | well-sanded |
释义 | well-sandedadj. Amply covered with sand. ΚΠ 1675 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 295 This grass of well sanded ground..far exceeds the longer grass, where less Sand is used. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry vi. 86 In well sanded Lands little or no Snow lies. 1798 ‘A Lady’ Poems 13 The last thing I shew is the well-sanded floor, And fifty years' almanacks hung near the door. 1803 A. Aikin tr. V. Denon Trav. in Upper & Lower Egypt II. xviii. 342 This was the only spot for about forty paces in which the road was narrow and difficult..; all the rest was like a well sanded walk in a garden. 1843 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 45/2 A smiling infant..crawling over the well-sanded floor. 1902 17th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. (Rhode Island) 274 Natural or native bogs are colder than well-sanded bogs. 2004 V. L. Thorndike On Tugboats i. 66 If all you've ever experienced is well-sanded roads, it doesn't matter how many lectures you've heard about handling a skid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1675 |
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