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Meaning of SAND-LOT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sand"-lot`\, a.
Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, --
hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or
practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the
Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his
speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the
{sand-lot constitution} of California, framed in 1879, under
   the influence of sand-lot agitation.
 
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