cutbank
[ kuht-bangk ]
noun
a nearly vertical cliff produced by erosion of the banks of a stream.
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How to use cutbank in a sentence
At the time the people moved up here on cutbank, he had been married but a short time.
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park | James Willard SchultzOn the morning that they approached the camp here on cutbank, Falling Bear had partly recovered the use of one eye.
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park | James Willard SchultzIt was decided that this should be done, and one morning more than forty young males started for cutbank River.
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park | James Willard SchultzLater he came suddenly upon a red clay cutbank, and a hint of water where the bank shadowed the mud-smeared rocks.
Partners of Chance | Henry Herbert KnibbsSewall guarded the German, while Roosevelt and Dow, crouching under the lee of a cutbank, prepared to greet the others.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands | H. Hagedorn.
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