Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "sand-blast".
Ellain shuddered at the thought of it, again, in imagination, feeling the sand-blast of the storm rip at her skin, her flesh.
Suddenly appearing from concealment, all fired weapons: catapults, sand-blasts, hand-guns from the Goho arsenal, those taken from the Chasch corpses.
Another platoon remained at the portal with the greater part of the sand-blasts and energetics.