Definition of "sand-hill" []

• A hill of sand, or a hill covered with sand. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Small blame to Amyas if he was thinking, not of his lonely mother at Burrough Court, but of those quick bright flashes on sand-hill and on fort, where Salvation Yeo was hurling the eighteen-pound shot with deadly aim, and watching with a cool and bitter smile of triumph the flying of the sand, and the crashing of the gabions."
• "So he paced to and fro, looking carefully out now and then over the strip of sand-hill which lay between him and the fort; but all was blank and black, and moreover it began to rain furiously."
• "At four miles got to the rise, which is a scrubby sand-hill."