bankside
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bankside
Example Sentences
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Mr Ing, from Langdon Hills, said his friends were unable to help until he could bring the catfish closer to the bankside.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
Within 18 months Pick had started to ascend the world rankings in boardercross and bankside slalom - which is a snowboard course with turns.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2018
Doubtless hereabout the lanes and building-tops were crowded31 with an idle throng as on a holiday, and wherries to the bankside and the play paused with suspended oar for a sight of the happy festival.
From Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Flory, Julia McCune
At length the water-bed took a curve, The deep river swept its bankside bare; Waters streamed from the hill-reserve— Waters here, waters there.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina
A decayed vintner, sir, That might have thriv'd, but that your worship broke me, With trusting you with muscadine and eggs, And five pound suppers, with your after-drinkings, When you lodged upon the bankside.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
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