cutbank
English
Noun
cutbank (plural cutbanks)
- (Canada, US) The outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 154:
- That particular day, walking along the streambed by the church, they came to a fresh cutbank where the earth had caved.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 154:
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