Meaning of sandwich | Babel Free

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1. A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food
2. A town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, southeastern England, one of the historic Cinque Ports (OS grid ref TR3258).
3. A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
4. A town of southeast England north of Dover. One of the original Cinque Ports, it is now a resort and market center.
5. Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material
6. An English habitational surname originating from this town.
7. Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
   broadly
8. a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports. 4467.
9. A layer cake or sandwich cake
10. One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
11. A city in DeKalb County and Kendall County, Illinois, United States.
12. A layer cake or sandwich cake.
    UK
13. slices of bread etc with food between. cheese sandwiches. toebroodjie سانْدويتْش، شَطيرَه сандвич sanduíche sendvič das Sandwich sandwich σάντουιτςbocadillo, sándwich (kahe poolega) võileib ساندويچ kerrosvoileipä sandwichכריך सैंडविच sendvič szendvics roti tangkep samloka sandwich サンドイッチ 샌드위치 sumuštinis sendvičs; sviestmaize sandwic sandwichsmørbrødkanapka سينډويچ، دوى ټوټ ډوډۍ، چه په منځ كى پخه شوى غوښه، سابه، پوڅه يا نور خواړه ايښول كيږى sanduíche sandviş сандвич, бутерброд sendvič sendvič ...
    etc
14. A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board)
15. A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
16. A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
    archaic
17. to place or press between two objects etc. His car was sandwiched between two lorries. platgedruk يَضَعُ شيْئا بين شَيْئَيْن وَيَضْغَط عَلَيْهِ вмъквам помежду comprimir sevřít einklemmen klemme ind στριμώχνω encajonar, apretujar entre dos objetos; intercalar vahele pressima ميان دو چيز گير انداختن puristaa väliin serrer entre “לַעֲשוֹת סְנדווִיץ'” बीच में रखना दो पाटों के umetnuti, stisnuti (köz)beékelődik mengapit klemma serrare 間にはさむ 중간에 끼우다 suploti iespiest (starpā); saplacināt mengapit k...
    etc
18. ↑ Lynne Murphy (28 May 2014) "sandwiches, more particularly bacon sandwiches" Separated by a Common Language
19. A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.
20. Two or more slices of bread with a filling such as meat or cheese placed between them.
21. Something resembling a sandwich: She layered a scoop of vanilla ice cream between two cookies to create a sandwich.
22. To insert (one thing) tightly between two other things often of differing character or quality. "She showed me her wedding band, which was sandwiched on the same finger between two prettier, fancier rings" (Dan Leone).
23. To collide with or crash into (a person, for example) with impacts on opposing sides: The quarterback passed the football just before he was sandwiched by two linebackers.
24. To make room or time for: sandwiched a vacation between business trips.
25. (Cookery) two or more slices of bread, usually buttered, with a filling of meat, cheese, etc

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Examples

“The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.”

“[…] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.”

“We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.”

“The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families.”

“I dined at the Cocoa Tree […] That reſpectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a ſight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the firſt men in the kingdom, in point of faſhion and fortune, ſupping at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle of a coffee-room, upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich, and drinking a glaſs of punch.”

“Sir Ch[ristopher]. Not a morſel, Tom, if you would give me the univerſe. / Rack[et]. Pooh, man, only a Sandwich or ſo.”

“A Receipt to thin the Houſe of Commons. Put Mr. Martin in the chair—let Mr. Alderman Watſon have the opening ſpeech—Mr. Hawkins Brown the anſwer—Mr. Drake the reply—Mr. Beaufoy the rejoinder—and forbid the eating of Sandwiches in the gallery. Probatum eſt!”

“Anstruther is a mighty good ſort of a man—but every man is not born an orator; even Mrs. Anſtruther, who has an excellent underſtanding, is obliged to have recourſe to Sandwiches, to render the unavoidable attendance ſupportable.”

“While many a suitor, / And gay coadjutor / In the eating-and-drinking line, scorns to be neuter; / One, being perhaps just return’d with his tutor / From travel in England, is tempting his “future” / With a luxury neat as imported, “The Pewter,” / And charming the dear Violantes and Iñeses / With a three-corner’d Sandwich, and soupçon of “Guinness’s;” / While another, from Paris but newly come back, / Hints “the least taste in life” of the best cogniac.”

“FORSTER & DAVIS Will sell by public auction, at their Mart, THIS DAY, the 11th March, instant, at twelve o’clock, […] One egg whisk / Six Sandwich boxes assorted / Six gravy strainers […]”

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