Sandwich (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview

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)
• A layered material consisting of one or more types of filling between two sheets of outer lining. Most often applies to building materials, clothing or composite armour.
• The following places:
  • Sandwich, Kent -- One of the Cinque Ports, a town of about 4,500 on the 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 -- a town of about 1,300 (and Center Sandwich, New Hampshire)

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).