| 释义 |
† risbank Obs.
[ad. Du. rijsbank, f. rijs rice n.1 Hence also G. rissbank, F. risban.]
An artificial bank, properly one faced or strengthened with brushwood.
Earlier in the form rice-bank: see rice n.1 5.
1731Hist. Litteraria I. 515 The Art of constructing Sluices, Dykes, Piles, Moles, Risbanks, Light-houses, Docks. 1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 325 This Risbank, or mound, ranges up-hill and down-hill indifferently. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. (1770) IV. xxxvii. 482 The fleet battered the risbank, which guarded the entry of the harbour. |