sand-reef

The anchorage is bad: the Shimal or north wind sweeps long lines of heavy wave into the open bay, and the bottom is a mass of rock and sand-reef.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Three sides of the place were a mere swamp, and the town itself stood upon a sand-reef, the houses being built upon piles, which some one told me rotted regularly every three years.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

There was nothing to explore on our sand-reef except the fishermen's primitive shelter, composed of a bit of sail-cloth and a few boards, furnished with simple cooking utensils, and superintended by a couple of frolicsome kittens, who took an unfeline delight in wading along in the edge of the water.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

You can tell a wind-reef, straight off, by the look of it; you can tell a break; you can tell a sand-reef -- that's all easy; but an alligator reef doesn't show up, worth anything.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

You can tell a wind-reef, straight off, by the look of it; you can tell a break; you can tell a sand-reef -- that's all easy; but an alligator reef doesn't show up, worth anything.

Life on the Mississippi 1870

They had beached their boat on a sand-reef, some sixty miles from their point of departure, in order to hunt shellfish, which, with Indian corn, constituted their sole food on the voyage.

Havannah Advices Announce 1865

There is another interesting question for consideration, which so far has been designedly left untouched -- as to what was the origin, or manner of formation of the great basins, called sounds, enclosed between the sand-reef and the main land.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

This closed condition of the sand-reef did not always exist; and indeed, one of the most remarkable operations which produced the present state of things, occurred within very recent time.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

Considering that all these herrings, are fish of passage, and enter every spring from the ocean, it is astonishing that such multitudes should enter through the very narrow and shallow inlets through the sand-reef.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

-- Supposed Geological position of the sand-reef, and the sounds.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861