sand lance (sandlans)

A fish of the family Ammodytidæ: same as sand - eel, 1. Also lance. sand-lark (sand'lärk), n. 1. Some small wading bird that runs along the sand, not a lark; any sandpiper or sand-plover, as a dunlin, dotterel, ringneck, etc. Along the river's stony marge The sandlark chants a joyous song. Words worth, The Idle Shepherd Boys. (a) The common sandpiper, Tringoides hypoleucus: also sandy laverock. (b) The sanderling, Calidris arenaria. 2. A true lark of the genus Ammomanes, as A. desert i, having a pale sandy plumage.