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Sandbag   Listen
noun
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



... the work of one, and a hundred of them taking all day to do what one robot would have done before noon. White-gowned chief-slaves lording it over green and orange gowned supervisors and clerks; overseers still carrying and frequently using whips and knouts and sandbag flails. ...
— A Slave is a Slave • Henry Beam Piper


Words linked to "Sandbag" :   minimise, understate, downplay, hit, force, strengthen, pressure, squeeze, wrong, sandbagger, dragoon, mislead, coerce, minimize, misinform, stun, railroad


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