Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sloping surface of sand spread out by an intermittent stream or flood.
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Examples
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Toward morning he stopped at a sand-wash where three or four dusty cottonwoods relieved the vegetation of mesquite, palo verde, and cacti.
Steve Yeager William MacLeod Raine 1912
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The sand-wash seemed to have been deflected by the projecting mass of a heap of driftwood which I now saw opposite to us, its long white arms reaching out toward those of our floating craft.
The Way of a Man Emerson Hough 1890
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