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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