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Seabank

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bank or mole to defend against the sea.

    "So strong is the barrier which these sea-borne sands oppose to the river-borne ooze, that as soon as a seabank is built — as the projectors of the Victoria County have built them — across any part of the estuary, the mud caught by it soon 'warps' the space within into firm and rich dry land."

  2. 2
    The seashore.

Etymology

From Middle English see-banke, se-banke, see banke, equivalent to sea + bank.

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