Vocabulary : sandlot to Sandwich

sandlot : a vacant lot; -- used especially in reference to informal games played by children; as, sandlot baseball.
Sand-lot : Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, -- hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of California, framed in 1879, under the influence of sand-lot agitation.
Sandman : A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
Sandnecker : A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
Sandpaper : Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing. ;; To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
Sandpiper : Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae. ;; A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Sandpit : A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
Sandre : A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare.
Sandstone : A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
Sandwich : Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them. ;; To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
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