sandbar
Noun
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a bar of sand
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Although towed off the sandbar the following day, it was beached again in Mayport and again damaged.
At the southeast end of the lagoon was a short protrusion toward the south which would become the Boca Raton Inlet after a sandbar at its mouth was removed.
Beginning Saturday morning, boaters gathered around a sandbar across from Fox Island in south Bismarck.
Below the Olifants, the river is permanently navigable to the sea, though a sandbar prevents access by large ships except at high tide.
Wertheim (1994), p. 232 On the St. Johns River and less than convert from Jacksonville, Commodore struck a sandbar in a dense fog and damaged its hull.
In essence a 126 mi² (327 km²) sandbar bordered by the Amur and Ussuri Rivers (Heilongjiang and Wusuli Rivers, in Chinese), the island was seized by the Soviet Union in 1929 during a border clash.