sandy blight

American  

noun

Australian.

1. trachoma.

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sandy blight British  

noun

1. a nontechnical name for any of various eye inflammations

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Etymology

Origin of sandy blight

First recorded in 1865–70; so called in allusion to the irritation caused by such a disorder

Example Sentences

Lawrence and contending with flies, ticks, funnel-webs, sandy blight and hot westerlies, and all hubby Luke wants to do is wrestle with cane cutters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sandy blight, n.: an inflammation of the tear ducts caused by living beyond the black stump.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was suffering from a severe attack of sandy blight in both eyes, so had to ride a horse which was tied to the bullock dray.

From Project Gutenberg

He cured the cows' eyes and got the sandy blight in his own, and for a week or so be couldn't tell one end of a cow from the other, but sat in a dark corner of the hut and groaned, and soaked his glued eyelashes in warm water.

From Project Gutenberg

Besides these small troubles, Breaden and Godfrey were suffering agonies from “sandy blight,” a sort of ophthalmia, which is made almost unbearable by the clouds of flies, the heat, the glare, and the dust.

From Project Gutenberg