spoil bankn.
A bank or large mound consisting of refuse earth or similar waste material.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > produced in boring, mining, or dredging > bank or mound of
spoil bank1830
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > small mound > type of
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1830 H. Booth Acct. Liverpool & Manch. Railway 55 The remainder, deposited as spoil banks, may be seen heaped up like Pelion upon Ossa.
1854 Hull Improv. Act 9 The piece of land..on the foreshore of the river Humber, near to a spoil bank.
1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia (1892) xiii. 126 It was nearly all loose red shale, very much like the burnt spoil-banks common in colliery districts.
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