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sand-spit en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sandspit.
May 29.—This morning we reached a sand-spit formed by a confluent stream, upon which the receding waters had left a wood-drift well suited for the streamer's use, having been forced by the jam of flood-tide high out of the current.
1877, R. Elton Smile [pseudonym; Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter I, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A., Buenos Ayres: Imprenta De Razon [actually Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press], →OCLC, page 14:
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