"sandcastler" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: sandcastlers [plural]
Etymology: From sandcastle + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sandcastle|er}} sandcastle + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} sandcastler (plural sandcastlers)
  1. A person who builds sandcastles. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-sandcastler-en-noun-vLLEp0uo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1981, Books of the Times, page 338",
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          "ref": "1981, Joseph Allen, “Chapter 4: The Art of Sandcastling”, in Sandcastles: The Splendors of Enchantment, Doubleday, pages 61, 90",
          "text": "So the first essential ingredient is a dream. Of course, imagination by itself does not suffice. You must acquire the skills to match your dreams—or you will remain a bemused armchair sandcastler, nurturing pipe dreams of unfulfillable glory. / Fortunately the skills required for sandcastling are developed with reasonable ease in a pleasant environment. […] The sandcastlers who would duplicate the original had to make crumbling beach sand the consistency of granite in order to support the delicate archways, the balustrades and balconies, and the flying buttresses of Heiliggeist Cathedral.",
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          "ref": "1982, Jeffrey Shear, Michael DiPersio, Steven Schneider, Castles in the Sand, Putnam Press, pages 1, 99",
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          "ref": "1994, Helen Naismith, Walking Cape Ann with Ted Tarr: Exploring the Trails of Rockport, Gloucester, Essex and Manchester-by-the-sea with a Favorite Native Son, Ten Pound Island Books, page 86",
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          "ref": "1998, California Wetlands Conference, September 10-11, 1998, San Diego, California",
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          "ref": "2010 September 15, Christena E. Nippert-Eng, Islands of Privacy, University of Chicago Press, pages 15, 16",
          "text": "In terms of boundary play, though, most interesting of all to me were the children I saw building sandcastles, also depicted on the diagram. I witnessed two distinct types of sandcastlers. […] The second type of sandcastler, though, was a little more daring. This person built her or his castle right on the edge of the lapping water.",
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