Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Some small wading bird that runs along the sand, not a lark; any sandpiper or sand-plover, as a dunlin, dotterel, ringneck, etc.
- noun The common sandpiper, Tringoides hypoleucus: also
sandy laverock . - noun The sanderling, Calidris arenaria.
- noun A true lark of the genus Ammomanes, as A. deserti, having a pale sandy plumage.
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Examples
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This forenoon we saw a gannet, a sand-lark and some water-snakes which in general were from two or three feet long.
A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship William Bligh 1785
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This forenoon we saw a gannet, a sand-lark, and some water-snakes, which in general were from two to three feet long.
A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat William Bligh 1785
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