spoil bank
Also spoil-bank.
[f. spoil n. 7 c or 10.]
A bank or large mound consisting of refuse earth or similar waste material.
| 1830 Booth L'pool & Manch. Rly. 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 Lees & Clutterbuck B.C. 1877 xiii. (1892) 126 It was nearly all loose red shale, very much like the burnt spoil-banks common in colliery districts. |