Definitions
a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
Word origin
From Middle English sandpitte, sandpette, sandpütte, from Old English sandpytt (“sandpit”), equivalent to sand + pit.
Used in a sentence
“Originally designed to illustrate Kuwait and the oil pipelines, the 'sandpit', based on maps and photographs to a scale of 1:1,000,000, was extended to include other countries.”
“[…] the commentaries on the battle given by Peter Snow with the aid of a model of the theatre of war, known as the 'Sandpit'.”
“[…] a conflict that did not fit so easily into the television studios, with their super-patriotic anchormen, their verbose ex-generals, their model tanks and their bloodless sandpits.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Playground dig site”7 letters
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