Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word full-banked.

Examples

  • Angrily the Rappahannock rushed southward, full-banked and impassable for troops.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Angrily the Rappahannock rushed southward, full-banked and impassable for troops.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Angrily the Rappahannock rushed south-ward, full-banked and impassable for troops.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Angrily the Rappahannock rushed south-ward, full-banked and impassable for troops.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Angrily the Rappahannock rushed south-ward, full-banked and impassable for troops.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • The long stone slides were glistening wet, and the brooks ran full-banked, noisy and turbulent and roily.

    The Mysterious Rider Zane Grey 1905

  • It was no wonder at all that they both broke into a clean run, and that they did not halt again until they stood in the edge of a second grove not far from the margin of the full-banked stream of water which wound down from the mountains and ran across that plateau.

    The Talking Leaves An Indian Story William Osborn Stoddard 1880

  • The dry and dusty bed of a forgotten brook had reappeared, a full-banked river, crossing the turnpike and compelling a long detour before the traveler could ford it.

    Susy, a story of the Plains Bret Harte 1869

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.