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English
Etymology
mud + bank
Noun
mudbank (plural mudbanks)
- An area of mud, possibly submerged, near the edge of a body of water.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them.
2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 189:He had a view across wide fields to the Stour nearing low tide, with its mudbanks emerging from the silver water like the humped backs of monsters, and segrasses and ccircling flocks of seabirds.
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References
- “mudbank”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.