Crossword clues for sanding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sand \Sand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Sanding.]
To sprinkle or cover with sand.
To drive upon the sand. [Obs.]
--Burton.To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.
To grind down or make smooth by rubbing with an abrasive object, esp. with sandpaper; to sand down.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of sanding, such as the application of sandpaper. 2 A type of dance where the floor is covered in sand. See (w: Sanding (dance)). vb. (present participle of sand English)
Wikipedia
Sanding is a type of dancing where the dance floor is covered in sand. Willie "The Lion" Smith said of sanding, "You could really hear and feel the rhythm when the dancers shuffled around in a nice pair of patent-leather shoes".
Usage examples of "sanding".
The vital time is between twenty to eight, when Ellen left your grandfather alive at the lodge, and twenty to nine, when Brough began the sanding.
Brough was now working her fingers to the bone, and merely enquired as to the time she had gone up to the house the night before, and the time Brough had commenced the sanding of the paths.
Dropping down onto the wooden swing, which needed sanding and restaining, he sipped his coffee and tried to harden his heart.
He spent the night at Munich, having made slow time along the snow-encrusted autobahns, frequently narrowed down to one lane while a snowplow or sanding truck tried to cope with the steadily falling snow.
He appeared in one barracks when the recruits were just getting up, and in another while they were sanding the floor.
For six years Mr Bullett-Finch had nurtured his lawns, sanding, mowing, spiking, fertilizing, weedkilling, even going so far as to prohibit visitors with high heels from walking on them.
Scotty was planning to do the job with a sanding disk mounted on a drill press.
Cas Johnson was leaning over the crumpled fender, the sanding machine still buzzing like an angry insect.
When the sanding machine was turned off, the boys heard Slagel refer to him as Reb.
Then she returned to sanding the doors, and completing the skirting boards.
And when they had done that, knowing that while everybody else was off getting beered up at the slop chute, he would be on his fucking hands and knees sanding the deck.