mudbankn.
/ˈmʌdbaŋk/, U.S. /ˈmədˌbæŋk/ A bank of mud on the bed of a river or the bottom of the sea. Also: a heap of mud.
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a1717 W. Diaper Lincolnshire (1720) 6 Serpents innum'rous o'er these Mud-Banks roam.
1774 Virginia Gaz. (Williamsburg) 17 Mar. 2/2 A Sloop..ran aground on a Mud Bank, a little Way up the Creek.
1791 G. Washington Diaries (1925) IV. 167 Wilmington, unfortunately for it, has a Mud bank—miles below, over which no more than 10 feet of water can be brought at common tides.
1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 38 From both [islands] a mud bank extends to the main shore.
1860 J. S. C. Abbott South & North 63 Vast reaches of mud-banks were all around.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 Dec. 8/2 In spite of the employment of many thousands..on..clearing away the muddy remains of the recent snowstorm, the principal roadways..presented an extraordinary spectacle of mud-heaps, mud-rivers, and mud-banks.
1963 W. Soyinka Dance of Forests ii. 75 From Limpopo to the Nile coils but one snake On mudbanks, and sandy bed.
1997 A. Roy God of Small Things (1998) v. 125 On the other side of the river, the steep mud banks changed abruptly into low mud walls of shanty hutments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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