sand-creeper, noun

Origin:
South African DutchShow more Translation of South African Dutch zandkruiper, see sandkruiper.
obs.
sandkruiper sense 1.
1731 G. Medley tr. of P. Kolben’s Present State of Cape of G.H. II. 203There is a fish at the Cape, call’d the Sand-Creeper, from its keeping near sandy shores, and endeavouring to hide itself in the sand, when ’tis taken in the net. The Sand-Creeper is something like the Thornback above-describ’d: But ’tis thicker and longer.
Entry Navigation

Visualise Quotations

Quotation summary

Senses

17311731