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Etymology

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sand +‎ hill +‎ -er

Noun

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sandhiller (plural sandhillers)

  1. (US, informal) A poor white person living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.
  2. A sandhill crane.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sandhiller”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)