See Also: sandbox(dictionary)
sandbox(dictionary)

sandbox (iou)



sandbox noun. L16.
[from SAND noun + BOX noun2.]
A box with a perforated top for sprinkling sand on to wet ink. obsolete exc. Hist. L16.
A box or receptacle holding sand, used for various purposes; esp. (a) a box used on a locomotive for sprinkling sand on slippery rails; (b) Golf (now rare) a container for the sand used in teeing; (c) (chiefly N. Amer.) a children's small low-sided sandpit; (d) a box kept indoors and filled with sand or other material for a cat to urinate or defecate in. L17.
Comb.: sandbox tree a W. Indian tree of the spurge family, Hura crepitans, whose dried seed-cases were formerly used to hold sand for blotting ink.