Mudbank
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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