Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shelving or sloping bank of a river, brook, or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a stream.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
land by ariverbank .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Desperately, I tighten my grip and rise up, erupting out of the water toward the bankside.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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We move carefully onto the road that runs along the bankside.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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And a tactical question: with no obvious hatch, but good holding water, you come to slight bend with a big rock on the inside of the turn, so you have both pocket water around the rock and a bankside run; what's the best rig for probing both without having to re-rig?
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We move carefully onto the road that runs along the bankside.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Desperately, I tighten my grip and rise up, erupting out of the water toward the bankside.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Mercifully, halfway across it stops, but the cold continues to bite bone deep as we scurry up the bankside.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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And a tactical question: with no obvious hatch, but good holding water, you come to slight bend with a big rock on the inside of the turn, so you have both pocket water around the rock and a bankside run; what's the best rig for probing both without having to re-rig?
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In the UK this will most likely include your eyeballs too as you find yourself sucked inexorably into ITV4's coverage with poor old doggedly persevering Matt Smith, locked in his bankside broom cupboard with Robert Croft for the next 49 days and 73 matches.
IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 | Barney Ronay 2011
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Mercifully, halfway across it stops, but the cold continues to bite bone deep as we scurry up the bankside.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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But this approach is ideally suited to situations with no casting room, like brushy little streams or tight, bankside runs.
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