sandpit
/ˈsænd.pɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.
Example Sentences
- "Originally designed to illustrate Kuwait and the oil pipelines, the 'sandpit', based on maps and photographs to a scale of 1:1,000,000, was extended to include other countries."
- "[…] the commentaries on the battle given by Peter Snow with the aid of a model of the theatre of war, known as the 'Sandpit'."
- "[…] a conflict that did not fit so easily into the television studios, with their super-patriotic anchormen, their verbose ex-generals, their model tanks and their bloodless sandpits."
Etymology
From Middle English sandpitte, sandpette, sandpütte, from Old English sandpytt (“sandpit”), equivalent to sand + pit.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sandpitte, sandpytt
Inflected Forms
sandpits (plural)
sand pit (alternative)