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ˈsandbagged, ppl. a.
[f. sandbag v. + -ed1.]
Having or equipped with sandbags. Also fig.
1916Blackw. Mag. May 615/2 He had betaken himself..to a blockhouse which guarded a section of the..railway... The outlook from this sand-bagged sanctuary was extensive and curious. 1930Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves! viii. 223 The Snettisham..was standing there with a sand-bagged look watching her nominee pass right out of the betting. 1940Economist 20 July 91/2 Claims under personal accident..were higher, for the black-out and sand-bagged pavements produced many minor injuries. 1952Dylan Thomas Coll. Poems 43 Man-in-seed, in seed-at-zero, From the star-flanked fields of space, Thunders on the foreign town With a sand-bagged garrison. 1959I. Jefferies Thirteen Days ii. 26 The Yehudi convoys used to form up..with iron-clad buses and sand-bagged lorries. 1977Time 21 Feb. 14/1 The demilitarized zone in Nicosia..separates sandbagged Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot gun emplacements. |