riverbankn.
/ˈrɪvəbaŋk/, U.S. /ˈrɪvərˌbæŋk/ The raised or sloping edge or border of a river; the bank or ground immediately adjacent to a river.
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a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. i. l. 26 Apon the ryver bank hym self dovn laid.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Margo The brimmes of the riuer banke.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. ii. 221 He departed from thence by the very edge of the river bankes, where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither on every side.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 145 With his last Voice, Eurydice, he cry'd, Eurydice, the Rocks and River-banks reply'd. View more context for this quotation
1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 9 A great Frequenter of the Woods and River-Banks.
1764 Skeffling Inclosure Act 13 In case the said river Humber shall..destroy the present river-bank.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 75/1 The females..seek out on the river-banks sandy spots for the deposit of their eggs.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 74 He ran Beside the river-bank.
1912 J. W. White Flora of Bristol 130 Monkshood occurs..on riverbanks in East and South Somerset, as far down as the Dorset border.
1947 K. Patchen See you in Morning 170 Down the riverbank violets shuddered delicately.
2005 J. Casey Appalachian Underground vi. 37 He stopped at the bridge and got out into cold knee-deep water, making his way to the riverbank.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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