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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An accumulation of mud, especially as formed by streams.

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Examples

  • Consider every molecule of air to be a mud-bank in itself.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • Der Mary Rebecca yust hang up on efery mud-bank with that hook.

    Charley's Coup 2010

  • Their bare white stems remaining like a net gripped in the mud, so that these pioneer mangrove heroes may be said to have laid down their lives to make that mud-bank fit for colonisation, for the time gradually comes when other mangroves can and do colonise on it, and flourish, extending their territory steadily; and the mud-bank joins up with, and becomes a part of, Africa.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • The arrows flew in almost silently, with just the soft whisper of the fletchings through the air, but the range was short, and the strike of the arrowheads into living flesh sounded like a handful of gravel thrown into a mud-bank.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • The enemy had gotten off on the mud-bank side of the island, run across it and hailed a passing boat at rifle point.

    The Village Bing West 2000

  • The enemy had gotten off on the mud-bank side of the island, run across it and hailed a passing boat at rifle point.

    The Village Bing West 2000

  • The enemy had gotten off on the mud-bank side of the island, run across it and hailed a passing boat at rifle point.

    The Village Bing West 2000

  • The enemy had gotten off on the mud-bank side of the island, run across it and hailed a passing boat at rifle point.

    The Village Bing West 2000

  • "We've run into a mud-bank, and are stuck fast," called back the boy.

    Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder Roy Rockwood

  • The view of crocodiles lying on the mud-bank of a river in Bengal inspired confidence in the accuracy of early teachings, because they were so like the hideous monster in the picture hung on the nursery wall.

    India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin

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