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sand bar
noun
- a ridge of sand in a river or sea, built up by the action of tides, currents, etc, and often exposed at low tide
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We passed beyond spark-range and splashed out on a sand-bar that jutted from the southern bank.
He was on the sand-bar before I could see him clearly, and coming straight toward where I was huddled in the brush.
So I was left on the sand-bar with two dead thieves, and two who should have been dead, and a little knot of horses for company.
How would you work to get a six-foot vessel over a four-foot sand bar?
That may be because some one ran aground sometime on the sand-bar off the end, and thought it deceitful.
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