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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Sand, v. [ME and e.m.E. sond (Chaucer), sand (1453); Sand n.] tr. a. To run (a ship aground). Also fig. b. To inundate (land, crops) with sand. Cf. Sanding vbl. n. c. Of a dam: To be silted up or damaged by the action of water and water-borne sand and detritus. d. intr. Of a sea-wall or embankment: To become silted up or suffer damage as in sense c
above.a. 1533 Boece 457b.
The tvme schippis … brokin and sonkin and stikking to the ground war sanditfig. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1664) 357.
I am sanded, and my love is sanded, [1894 stranded] and I find not how to bring it on float againb. 1659 Lamont Diary 118.
Mutch of ther corne sanded by breaking foorth of the waters 1675 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 350.
The teinds of Furvie (now almost sandit)c. 1661 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. IV 62.
Damm which the Town had upon the same water, which still was sanded and broke with speats and torrents of the water, [and further that they] … have not any going milne at presentd. 1555–6 Edinb. B. Rec. II 320.
The aucht dayis expensis in bakking of bulwark in Leyth … The aucht dayis expensis to dyk up the bulwart quhen it sandit … for … schip-timmer to be baking to the bulwart
