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Sandbag   Listen
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sandbag  n.  A bag filled with sand; small sandbags may be used as a weapon, or larger ones to build walls or as ballast; as, they kept the flooding river from the area by buiding a temmporary dike out of sandbags.





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"Sandbag" Quotes from Famous Books



... 60 without regard to sacrificing his men. Sir John French was just as determined to hold the hill. So he moved large numbers of troops toward the shattered mound, the British artillery was reenforced, and the hastily constructed sandbag breastworks were ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan


Words linked to "Sandbag" :   bag, pressure, sandbagger, hit, downplay, minimise, strengthen, railroad, squeeze, understate, force, stun


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