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Sandridge

name, noun

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Proper Noun

1
A placename:; A village and civil parish in the city of St Albans district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1710). countable, uncountable
2
A placename:; A village in Melksham Without parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9364). countable, uncountable
3
A placename:; Former name of Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. countable, uncountable
4
A placename:; Alternative form of Sand Ridge, West Virginia. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
5
A habitational surname from Old English. countable

Noun

1
A ridge or bank of sand; sandbank.
"On the other side, under the lee of the sand-ridge, which was their usual point of separation, he endured for some moments the beard-raspings of indecision, frowning about the landscape and down at Cora."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *sandrygge, from Old English sandhryċġ (“a sandbank”), equivalent to sand + ridge. Cognate with West Frisian sânrêch, Dutch zandrug, German Sandrücken.

Etymology 2

From Old English sand (“sand”) + hryċġ (“ridge”).

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