Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small whirl-wind carrying sand, leaves, etc.
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Examples
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Moreover iron conjures away fiends: when a water-spout or a sand-devil (called Shaytán also in Arabia) approaches, you point the index at the Jinn and say, “Iron, O thou ill-omened one!”
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In that moment I was confronting nothing but a whirling sand-devil.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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The show was pleasingly extravagant, as spectacular as the great sand-devil of 353, which carried off the Great Temple's western tower here.
The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996
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The show was pleasingly extravagant, as spectacular as the great sand-devil of 353, which carried off the Great Temple's western tower here.
The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996
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Moreover iron conjures away fiends: when a water-spout or a sand-devil (called Shaytán also in Arabia) approaches, you point the index at the Jinn and say, "Iron, O thou ill-omened one!"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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