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Dune   /dun/   Listen
Dune

noun
(Written also dun)
1.
A ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans.  Synonym: sand dune.



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"Dune" Quotes from Famous Books



... in English blude They wat their hose and shoon; The Lindsays flew like fire aboot Till a' the fray was dune.' ...
— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... hand, Haltren stood up among the reeds and inspected the landscape. Already the fish-crows and egrets were flying inland, the pelicans had left the sandbar, the eagles were gone from beach and dune. High in the thickening sky wild ducks passed over Flyover Point and dropped into the ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers

... of the dune's slope without incident. But there he came to an abrupt halt as the silence was suddenly shattered by a strange sound from the shrubbery-covered crest just above him. It was a musical, tinkling crash, oddly ...
— Devil Crystals of Arret • Hal K. Wells

... aneuch, an' a decent lad he was—he just lived twa or three doors frae us; an', as to the carrier misleadin ye, I dinna wunnur at that either—for he wad naturally think ye were inquirin after the deceased. But there's nae harm dune, ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various



Words linked to "Dune" :   ridge



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