Mudbank

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An area of mud, possibly submerged, near the edge of a body of water.

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From mud + bank.

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