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ˈsand-hill
[sand n.2]
a. A hill or bank of sand; esp. a dune on the sea-shore.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) A 440 Alga, scaldhyflas uel sondhyllas. c1440Promp. Parv. 464/2 Sond hylle, or pytte, sorica. a1603Sir F. Vere Comm. 88 The space betwixt the sea and the sand-hills or Downs. 1709Prior Lady's Looking-Gl. 2 Celia and I..Walk'd o'er the Sand-hills to the Sea. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 300 Chains of sand⁓hills have also accumulated on the shores of the delta of the Nile. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxviii, Easily, on the flowing tide,..she has slipped up the channel between the two lines of sand-hill. 1890Murray's Handbk. for Lincolns. Introd. 26 The sand-hills or ‘dunes’ have little beauty beyond their wildness.
b. sand-hill crane, a North American crane, Grus canadensis; also absol.
1805W. Clark Jrnl. 31 Oct. in Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) III. 176 Jo killed a Sand hill Crane. 1834J. K. Townsend Narr. Journey Rocky Mts. (1839) i. 12 We observed great numbers of the brown, or sandhill crane,..flying over us. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 305/1 The great sand-hill cranes..looking as big as the horses we rode. 1907W. O. Lillibridge Where Trail Divides 115 He can..stalk a sandhill crane where there isn't cover to hide your hat. 1938C. H. Matschat Suwanee River 186 He seen the sandhills a-dancin' their matin' dance. 1949Natural Hist. Oct. 378/1 Once heard, the far-reaching call of the sand⁓hill crane is a sound that can never be forgotten. 1960R. T. Peterson Field Guide Birds of Texas 79 Sandhill Crane..A long-legged, long-necked gray bird with a bald red forehead. 1977New Yorker 9 May 113/1 He had later seen a pair of sandhill cranes.
c. sand-hill rosemary, a small heath-like evergreen shrub, Ceratiola ericoides.
1895T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gard.
d. Canad. pl. A region of southeastern Alberta; in the mythology of Plains Indians, the abode of departed spirits.
1949J. G. MacGregor Blankets & Beads 113 Nothing marks the spot where some mighty chief or minor brave sleeps, while his spirit travels the trails of the Great Sand Hills. 1957Camsell Arrow (Edmonton, Alberta) Christmas 77/1 The sun dance site is in the heart of the 50-mile-square Blood reserve about 40 miles south of Lethbridge. There are situated the sacred sand hills and the happy hunting grounds for departed spirits. 1959N. Sluman Blackfoot Crossing 13 Little Tree would have to go unadorned to the Sand Hills, for her daughter could not part with the red glass beads. 1963R. D. Symons Many Trials xiii. 138 He [sc. a missionary] had been saying that it would not be long now before he [sc. an Indian] would be called to the Sand⁓hills. 1975Alberta Hist. Spring 16/2 Indians tell that a blizzard came up and blue and yellow lightning coloured the sky when Wolf Collar's ghost departed for the Sand Hills, the home of the dead.
Hence ˈsand-hiller, one of a class of ‘poor whites’ living in the pine-woods that cover the sandy hills of Georgia and South Carolina.
1848Congress. Globe 30th Congress 1st Sess. App. 137/1 The thing is whispered even among the sandhillers of South Carolina. 1850E. P. Burke Reminisc. Georgia 205 These people are known at the South by such names as crackers, clay-eaters, and sand-hillers. 1856Olmsted Slave States 506 The sand-hillers..are small, gaunt, and cadaverous, and their skin is just the color of the sand-hills they live on. 1872[see piney-woods cracker s.v. piney wood b]. 1944[see piney-woods tacky s.v. piney wood b]. 1958H. Babcock I don't want to shoot an Elephant 155 Barefooted and shirtless, the sandhiller was sprawled listlessly on the porch when I arrived. |