sand

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Its bottom was covered with sand, and in this sand were the tracks of another bear.

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  1. noun Small loose grains of worn or disintegrated rock.
  2. noun Geology A sedimentary material, finer than a granule and coarser than silt, with grains between 0.06 and 2.0 millimeters in diameter.
  3. noun A tract of land covered with sand, as a beach or desert. Often used in the plural.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. from Middle English sand, sond, from Anglo-Saxon sand = Old Saxon sand = OFries. sond = Middle Dutch sand, Dutch zand = Middle Low German sant, Low German sand = Old High German Middle High German sant, German sand = Icelandic sandr = Swedish Danish sand (Gothic (Moesogothic) not recorded), sand; cf. Old High German *samat, Middle High German sampt, German dial. (Bavarian) samp, sand; the Teutonic base being apparently orig. samd-, prob. = Greek ἄμαθος, ψάμαθος, sand; cf. English dial. samel, gritty, sandy, and L. sabulum (for *samulum?), sand, gravel.
  2. from sand, n.
  3. Middle English, also sonde, from Anglo-Saxon sand, sond, a sending, message, mission, an embassy, also a dish of food, a mess, literally ‘a thing sent,’ from sendan (√ sand), send: see send. Cf. sandesman.
 

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