Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wind that raises and carries along clouds of dust and sand.
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Examples
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It has few oases, the water of the wells is generally either brackish or unpotable and it is visited by the sand-wind called Samoom.
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During the night, there was much lightning from the north-east; and about daybreak a very heavy sand-wind commenced, which continued with great violence until four in the afternoon.
Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa Mungo Park 1788
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a beautiful print of sand-wind in the desert, though it was twice reversed, he exclaimed: "Why, it is all the same!"
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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