Sandman

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.

   “This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.”

2. isim Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death.
3. isim A seller of sand.

   “1811, Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, Henry Mozley (publ.), page 114. While I was out, a sandman, who sells scouring sand, which women use to clean the baths with, passed through our street, and called, Any sand ho !”

4. özel isim A surname.
5. özel isim Alternative letter-case form of sandman (“folkloric figure sprinkling sand into eyes”).