snowbank

[snoh-bangk]

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noun

a mound of snow, as a snowdrift or snow shoveled from a road or sidewalk.

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Origin of snowbank

First recorded in 1770–80; snow + bank¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Related Words

sleet, slush, snowbank, snowdrift, snowflake, snowfall

Examples from the Web for snowbank

Historical Examples

You certainly paid him back for shoving you into that snowbank.
The Rover Boys on a Hunt
Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
If I can only get it into my apron I will drop it outside the door into the snowbank.
Midnight In Beauchamp Row
Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)
In another five minutes he was peering like a woodchuck from his hole in the snowbank.
Panther Eye
Roy J. Snell
He called for help, but the cry rose no higher than the snowbank.
The Transformation of Job
Frederick Vining Fisher
Once we saw what we took to be a snowbank just ahead by the roadside.
The Car That Went Abroad
Albert Bigelow Paine

Word Origin and History for snowbank

n.

1779, from snow (n.) + bank (n.2).

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