Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Ammodytidæ: same as
sand-eel , 1. Alsolance .
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Examples
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Gannets and terns eat almost exclusively live fish that they catch by plunging; depleting schools of fishes like herring or sand-lance can crucially diminish their food supply.
Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers Carl Safina 2012
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Gannets and terns eat almost exclusively live fish that they catch by plunging; depleting schools of fishes like herring or sand-lance can crucially diminish their food supply.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Carl Safina 2012
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Testing of sand-lance samples from fishermen's group in the northern town of Hirakata also showed they contained 4,080 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131.
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Testing of sand-lance samples from a fishermen's group in the northern town of Hirakata also showed they contained 4,080 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131.
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_muryan_, the ant; _quilkan_, the frog (which retains its English name when in the water); _pul-cronach_ (literally pool-toad) is the name given to a small fish with a head much like that of a toad, which is often found in the pools (_pulans_) left by the receding tide among the rocks along shore; _visnan_, the sand-lance;
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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