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Definition of Sandman
1. Noun. An elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy.
Definition of Sandman
1. n. A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
Definition of Sandman
1. Noun. A figure who brings good sleep and dreams by placing sand in the eyes. ¹
2. Noun. (non-gloss definition Used as a symbol of the passage of time to death.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sandman
1. a mythical person who makes children sleepy by sprinkling sand in their eyes [n SANDMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandman
Literary usage of Sandman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poets and Poetry of Indiana: A Representative Collection of the Poetry of by Benjamin Strattan Parker (1900)
"The Salve of the sandman. MARY HOCKET FLANNER. OH, the sandman carries lint, Made
of raveled thistledown, All powdered o'er with pollen From drowsy poppies ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"said the sandman, looking up, evidently rather annoyed. ... That's true," replied
the sandman ; " and there's no fear of his knowin' us, for the wery moment ..."
3. Poems by Grades: Containing Poems Selected for Each Grade of the School by Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1907)
"... And now the sandman's gentle tread Comes stealing through the town. "
White sand, white sand," he softly cries, And as he shakes his hand, ..."
4. The Hill Readers by Daniel Harvey Hill (1906)
"THE sandman umbrella inquired fancied' slightest glittered exercise capital
quantity clever immediately stork There is nobody in the whole world who knows ..."
5. Lullabies and Slumber Songs: With a Few Other Child Verses by Lincoln Hulley (1900)
"THE sandman 'T'HE sandman lives in a great big tent By the shore of the Twilight
sea, And he speeds him forth when the day is spent, And he hurries across ..."
6. Poets and Poetry of Indiana: A Representative Collection of the Poetry of by Benjamin Strattan Parker (1900)
"The Salve of the sandman. MARY HOCKET FLANNER. OH, the sandman carries lint, Made
of raveled thistledown, All powdered o'er with pollen From drowsy poppies ..."
7. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"said the sandman, looking up, evidently rather annoyed. ... That's true," replied
the sandman ; " and there's no fear of his knowin' us, for the wery moment ..."
8. Poems by Grades: Containing Poems Selected for Each Grade of the School by Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1907)
"... And now the sandman's gentle tread Comes stealing through the town. "
White sand, white sand," he softly cries, And as he shakes his hand, ..."
9. The Hill Readers by Daniel Harvey Hill (1906)
"THE sandman umbrella inquired fancied' slightest glittered exercise capital
quantity clever immediately stork There is nobody in the whole world who knows ..."
10. Lullabies and Slumber Songs: With a Few Other Child Verses by Lincoln Hulley (1900)
"THE sandman 'T'HE sandman lives in a great big tent By the shore of the Twilight
sea, And he speeds him forth when the day is spent, And he hurries across ..."
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