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
"But no vestige of the bankside lingers now or gate to show The track of the old vanished lane of love's sweet long ago."
From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman
And I thought they were settled for hours, as comfortable as two old hens chunnering among the warm dust by a bankside.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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 Christina Georgina Rossetti
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