† water-bank Obs.
A bank of a river; also, the sea-shore.
| 1382 Wyclif Acts xxvii. 39 Thei biheelden sum hauene hauynge a water banke, into which thei thouȝten..for to caste the schipp. c 1400 Destr. Troy 4239 For many a Troyen sen thei stonde Armed wel opon the londe, To put hem fro the water bankes. c 1425 St. Christina vii. in Anglia VIII. 122 Þe preste..come and stood vpoun þe watir⁓banke. 1470–85 Malory Arthur iv. vi. 125 Thenne were they ware of the herte that lay on a grete water banke, and a brachet bytynge on his throte. 1546 Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) 56 The yerly reparacions of the waterbanke. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 76 Wtheris..war cruellie slaine wpoun the watter bankis. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Sinus,..the running or hollowness of Water⁓banks. |
| fig. 1533 tr. Erasm. Expos. Commune Creed U ij b, Swearyng..is very cosyn and nere to synne, and it is no good trustyng to this daungerous waterbanke. |