Definition of "mudbank" [mudbank]

• An area of mud, possibly submerged, near the edge of a body of water. (noun)

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• "Consider every molecule of air to be a mudbank in itself."
• "Then, as we travel more slowly through a shallow stretch of marsh, an alligator languidly lifts its body from its perch on a mudbank and slinks slowly into the water."
• "And yet, I feel that the tide turned on that mudbank; at least, after a long nightmare, I can say that there followed a period of comparative calm, for me, in which I was able to recruit my tattered nerves, and take stock, and start planning how to get the devil out of this Indian pickle and back to England and safety."