Definitions
rub with sandpaper
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English sond, sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz.
Used in a sentence
“For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.”
““We are addicted to sand but don’t know it because we don’t buy it as individuals,” says Aurora Torres, […]”
“China’s hunger for sand is insatiable, its biggest dredging site at Lake Poyang produces 989,000 tonnes per day.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues
01“Beach filler”4 letters
02“Beach material underfoot”4 letters
03“Desert grain”4 letters
04“Desert material”4 letters
05“Grains on a beach”4 letters
06“Hourglass grains”4 letters
07“Tiny beach grains”4 letters
08“Beach material”4 letters
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