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sandman
/ˈsænd.mæn/
noun 3name 2
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3ADJ.
bad
PREP.
out
ADV.
then
Definitions
noun
1
A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.
This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.
2
Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death.
3
A seller of sand.
1811, Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, Henry Mozley (publ.), page 114. While I was out, a sandman, who sells scouring sand, which women use to clean the baths with, passed through our street, and called, Any sand ho !
name
1
A surname.
2
Alternative letter-case form of sandman (“folkloric figure sprinkling sand into eyes”).
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This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand
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1811, Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, Henry Mozley (publ.), page 114. While I was out, a sandman, who sells scouring sa
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