Sandwich (disambiguation)

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The word sandwich, when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language:

Sandwich -- a preparation of meat or some other filling between two slices of bread, which can be held in the hand and eaten without utensils (in theory).
* By extension; a layered material consisting of one or more types of filling between two sheets of outer lining. Most often applies to
** building materials such as sandwich structured composites,
** clothing or
** composite armour.
* A sexual position with possible multiple penetration.
The following places:
*Sandwich, Kent -- One of the Cinque Ports, a town of about 4,500 on the south eastern coast of England.
*Sandwich, Illinois, United States of America.
*Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States of America -- a town of about 22,000 on Cape Cod.
*Sandwich, New Hampshire, United States of America -- a town of about 1,300 which includes the villages of Center Sandwich and North Sandwich.

Sandwich is also a part of the names of:

The earls of Sandwich, including John Montagu, the fourth earl and the alleged inventor in 1762 of the sandwich.
The Hawaiian Islands were, for a short time, known to Western geographers as the Sandwich Islands. (See Captain James Cook).
The South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province, situated in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 1390 km south by east of the Falkland Islands.

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