mud-bank
[f. mud n.1 + bank n.1]
A bank of mud in the bed of a river or on the bottom of the sea. Also transf.
| 1774 Virginia Gaz. (Williamsburg) 17 Mar. 2/2 A Sloop..ran aground on a Mud Bank, a little Way up the Creek. 1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. State Maine I. 38 From both [islands] a mud bank extends to the main shore. 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. 1974 P. Dickinson Poison Oracle i. 18 The heated air rose..above reed-bed and mud-bank. |