Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dune or sheet of sand which advances slowly under prevalent wind action and thus imitates a true glacier.

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  • Trees yet to die stand in passive bands at their feet; the stark, black trunks of trees long dead rise here and there in spots where the sand-glacier has done its work of ruin and passed on.

    Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

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