cutbank

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From cut +‎ bank.

Noun[edit]

cutbank (plural cutbanks)

  1. (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, published 2014, page 154:
      That particular day, walking along the streambed by the church, they came to a fresh cutbank where the earth had caved.

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