sanded

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of sand.

   She sanded the old door until the cracked paint flaked away.

   The boards were sanded and varnished by the carpenter overnight.

   Note

   A regular -ed form doing double duty: she sanded the door, the door was sanded, she has sanded it. Behind it stand three uses of the verb: smoothing with sand or sandpaper, spreading sand over something, and, historically, blotting wet ink with sand. The object usually decides between the first two. The third belongs to accounts of the past.

2. 2
   adjective

   Of a surface, made smooth and even in texture by rubbing, grinding, or another finishing process.

   The sanded panels gleamed once the finish was brushed on.

   A sanded surface takes paint far more evenly than a rough one.

   Similarsmooth, polished

   Oppositerough, unfinished, unsanded

   Note

   Here sand itself may never have touched the surface. The adjective covers any smoothing, whether by sandpaper, rubbing or grinding. That makes it easy to mix up with the "covered with sand" meaning: a sanded floor is usually smoothed, while a sanded path is usually gritted. The noun tells you which. It is also not graded, so nothing is "more sanded" than something else.

3. 3
   adjective

   Covered or strewn with sand.

   The freshly sanded road gave the tires extra grip during the storm.

   Crews left the trail sanded after a hard frost set in overnight.

   Note

   Beyond gritted roads and winter paths, the word has a quieter literary life describing landscapes laid over with sand. Horace Gregory's 1958 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses uses it of desolate coasts in distant lands. Edna O'Brien's Mother Ireland (1976) sets green, leafy country against "the sparse sanded land." In such writing it suggests sand lying over the land rather than land made of it.

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