Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low point of land projecting into a lake or sea and composed of sand and formed by the interaction of waves and currents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
sandy point of land or a narrowshoal projecting into a body of water from theshore
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Examples
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House, so that it was John Barleycorn who led him to the sandspit in quest of his old shirt.
Chapter 11 2010
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As they headed in for the sandspit, the submerged salmon boat could be seen, gunwales awash and held up from sinking by ropes fast to the schooner and the sloop.
Chapter 11 2010
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And because I told Scotty what I thought of his letting an old man like French Frank get away with him, we, too, brawled and added to the festivity of the sandspit.
Chapter 11 2010
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From the sandspit the way led out through the Golden Gate to the vastness of adventure of all the world, where battles would be fought, not for old shirts and over stolen salmon boats, but for high purposes and romantic ends.
Chapter 11 2010
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Skiff after skiff crossed the estuary and hauled up on the sandspit, while Hans 'work was cut out for him -- ever to row back and forth for more supplies of booze.
Chapter 11 2010
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Reindeer, crewless, lay across the estuary at the sandspit.
Chapter 11 2010
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Split-up; but when the sandspit, over which they had portaged, crashed at the impact of a million tons, Corliss glanced at her anxiously.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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The battered old Douglas C-47 Skytrain of the China National Aviation Corporation, its chocolate brown fuselage battle-scarred with bullet holes and dents, shuddered its way down through the rain clouds, the pilot following the slow bends of the Yangzi River until he had the sandspit landing field in sight in front of him and the cliffs of China's capital city to his left.
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Fervently hoping its lone occupant was still alive and not badly injured, Tom lowered the great plane to the water and set it down on a broad sandspit at the head of the lake.
I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010
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Farewell Spit, at the tip of the northern coast, is the longest sandspit in the country with the largest intertidal sandflat system.
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