sandal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   sandalwood

   And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries[…]

2. 2
   noun

   a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot

3. 3
   noun

   A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

4. 4
   verb

   To put on sandals.

5. 5
   noun

   A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.

6. 6
   name

   A suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3418).

Etymology

From Middle English sandal (“sandalwood”), from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /⁠čandal⁠/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”). Doublet of santalum.