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From a- +‎ strandCategory:English terms prefixed with a-#STRAND.

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Adjective

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Resting on the bed of a body of water rather than floating; on or onto a shore or beach. (of a watercraft)
Synonym: aground
- 1671, “The Copy of a Narrativ, Sent from Capt. D. Butler,”, in John Morrison, transl., The Perillous and Most Unhappy Voyages of John Struys‎, London: Samuel Smith, published 1683, page 373:
  […] I had news by the Chirurgeon, how that my Ships-company that betook themselvs to flight with the Shallop were run astrand on the Scemkal or Dagestan Coast, a Countrey butting out against the Caspian Sea.
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- 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto VI. The Guard-room.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XIII, page 260:
  As the tall ship, whose lofty prore
  Shall never stem the billows more,
  Deserted by her gallant band,
  Amid the breakers lies astrand,—
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- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 47, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 482:
  There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud,
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- 1932, Robinson Jeffers, “Margrave”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers‎, New York: Random House, published 1938, page 374:
  […] he slipped and lay face down in the running stream and was hauled astrand.
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Anagrams

Stanard, sand art, tar sand, tarsand