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ˈsand-bank
[f. sand n.2 + bank n. 1.]
1. A bank of sand formed in a river or sea by the action of tides and currents.
1589Rider Bibl. Scholast. 1268/60 A sand banke in the Sea,..pulvinus. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 510 Frothy breaches of the Seas over the Sand-banks. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 147 She tailed aground upon a sand-bank. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xix. 524 The Nile flows wide among sandbanks, like a tidal river near the sea.
fig.1855Motley Dutch Rep. vi. i. (1866) 781 Its foundation was the shifting sandbank of female and royal coquetry.
2. Founding. (See quot.)
1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Sand Bank. In foundries where small pipes are cast in quantities the moulding boxes are placed, and the metal run on a bank of sand. |