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Sanded

Sand \Sand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Sanding.]

  1. To sprinkle or cover with sand.

  2. To drive upon the sand. [Obs.]
    --Burton.

  3. To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

  4. To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.

  5. To grind down or make smooth by rubbing with an abrasive object, esp. with sandpaper; to sand down.

Sanded

Sanded \Sand"ed\, a.

  1. Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.
    --Thomson.

  2. Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound.
    --Shak.

  3. Short-sighted. [Prov. Eng.]

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sanded

vb. (en-past of: sand)

Usage examples of "sanded".

Eighteen radicles were tried with little squares of sanded card, some affixed with shellac and some with gumwater, during the few last days of 1878, and few first days of the next year.

The walls had been replastered and painted, the floors sanded and refinished, the paneling cleaned and shined.

Brethren hollowed out the figures, placed the drug inside, then resmelted the chips of brass that had been scooped out, filled in over the flask, sanded, buffed, polished, and replaced the pieces in the crates.

Four chartered buses parked in front of the court building directly behind a television truck provided the first shiver of anxiety in the young attorney as he paid off the cabdriver and hurried up the freshly sanded steps.

I had now both seen and heard enough of college comforts to wish myself safe back again at Eton in the snug, clean, sanded dormitory of my old dame.

Returning, she sanded rough spots on the wall and spackled cracks, with one ear on the music and one on the phone.

By Saturday afternoon, years of dirt had been wiped away, and every wall in the place stripped of paper, spackled, and sanded in preparation for the simple coat of white paint that Brian wanted.

I took that first house, spackled, sanded, and painted it, then flipped it for a twenty-five-thousand-dollar profit.

Stephen could reply, there was a great shuffling of heavy feet upon the sanded floor, and the whole company of disappointed and toilworn men stood up, covering their faces with their hard hands.

Two workers nearby were winding sanded coathanger wire around wooden rods and cutting off links for more.

George is becoming thoughtful, sitting before the fire in the whitewashed room, which has a sanded floor and a barrack smell and contains nothing superfluous and has not a visible speck of dirt or dust in it, from the faces of Quebec and Malta to the bright tin pots and pannikins upon the dresser shelves--Mr.

This yard was large, and railed the alleys, And shadow'd well with blossomy boughes green, And benched new, and sanded all the ways, In which she walked arm and arm between.

When I moved the flame closer to it I realized that it wasn't a mark but three cutlines sanded smooth and painted over so that you had to be where I was to see them.

I would come home with my trousers tucked up, and my high-lows unlaced and full of water, sucking every time that I lifted up my leg, and marking the white sanded floor of the front room, as I proceeded through it to the back kitchen.

Then with a hard black gum mixed with metal filings, he packed the screw holes and sanded them over.