Definition of "mud-bank" [mud-bank]

• An accumulation of mud, especially as formed by streams. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Der Mary Rebecca yust hang up on efery mud-bank with that hook."
• "Consider every molecule of air to be a mud-bank in itself."
• "Their bare white stems remaining like a net gripped in the mud, so that these pioneer mangrove heroes may be said to have laid down their lives to make that mud-bank fit for colonisation, for the time gradually comes when other mangroves can and do colonise on it, and flourish, extending their territory steadily; and the mud-bank joins up with, and becomes a part of, Africa."