Definition of "sandspit" [sandspit]

• A small sandy point of land or a narrow shoal projecting into a body of water from the shore (noun)

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• "From the sandspit the way led out through the Golden Gate to the vastness of adventure of all the world, where battles would be fought, not for old shirts and over stolen salmon boats, but for high purposes and romantic ends."
• "And because I told Scotty what I thought of his letting an old man like French Frank get away with him, we, too, brawled and added to the festivity of the sandspit."
• "Reindeer, crewless, lay across the estuary at the sandspit."