Crossword clues for sandspit
sandspit
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A small sand point of land or a narrow shoal projecting into a body of water from the shore
Wikipedia
Sandspit may refer to: a boat
- Sandspit, British Columbia, a town on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
- Sandspit Beach, a major tourist site in Karachi Karachi, Pakistan
- Sandspit (landform), a deposition landform found off coasts
Usage examples of "sandspit".
When its long, low sandspit was revealed by the falling tide, the ship took thought of her agony there, and traversed those treacherous waters with due reverence.
Separated from the sea by a narrow sandspit, it spread away into the treeless waste, an enormous extent of quiet shallow water in tranquil contrast to the unchecked surf that burst on the sandspit.
There was a deep water entrance through the sandspit, and a channel meandered across the lagoon to where a cluster of lonely whitewashed buildings sprang up on the edge of the desert.
They crossed the sandspit and hit the beach, racing along it, playing tag with the waves that shot up the sand.
But the final preparations had been going on since long before dawn on the barren and isolated sandspit on the Florida coast.
It was on a sandspit running out toward the ship channel beyond the eastern end of the water-front, with only some mud flats between it and the long jetties going toward the open Gulf.
The great wood seemed now to be a moving thing, a flood which lapped and surged and might at any moment overflow the sandspit which was Woodilee.
Congregational one, three-storied snowy spire and stately white walls on what passed for a hill on this sandspit island.
He was across the sandspit and halfway up the beach, heading for the croft, when he saw the footprints.
Unhappy five-hundred-kilo carnivores were bad news anywhere, and worse than that on a crowded sandspit in the dark with fifteen-thousand-odd men trying to find their unit assembly areas.
Marquette and on the shore of Lake Superior, Doc Savage found a narrow sandspit between two great mounds of sandstone.
The long sandspit that protected the bay lay low in the mist off to port and on the other side they could make out a smokestack at the head of Oyster Creek.
The privateer would be three hundred yards from the Jorum as she passed between the two sandspits, and the Triton would be the same distance from Gorton's schooner, approaching from the opposite direction, when the cliff on the south side of the entrance bore south-west.