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cutbank

[ kuht-bangk ]

noun

  1. a nearly vertical cliff produced by erosion of the banks bank of a stream.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cutbank1

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20; cut + bank 1

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Example Sentences

At the time the people moved up here on Cutbank, he had been married but a short time.

On the morning that they approached the camp here on Cutbank, Falling Bear had partly recovered the use of one eye.

It was decided that this should be done, and one morning more than forty young males started for Cutbank River.

Later he came suddenly upon a red clay cutbank, and a hint of water where the bank shadowed the mud-smeared rocks.

Sewall guarded the German, while Roosevelt and Dow, crouching under the lee of a cutbank, prepared to greet the others.

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