sandwich

[So called after John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, Kent, England, who used to have sandwiches brought to him at the gaming table, to enable him to play without leaving off.] 1. Two thin slices of bread, plain or buttered, with a slice of meat, as ham, beef, ., seasoned with mustard, between them. 2. Hence, applied to anything resembling a sandwich, i . e ., consisting of a person or thing placed between two different things. *3. Applied incorrectly to the advertisement boards carried by a sandwich-man. sandwich-boat, s. Aquatics: A term applied at Oxford, England, to the boat which having come to the head of the second division is made to row at the tail of the first.