Definition of "sand-bank" []

• A bank of sand; especially, a bank of sand formed by tides or currents. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The river, higher than the beach, was seeping through the immense sand-bank into the sea."
• "The water grew deeper and more swift, and it became gradually clear that there was a fallen tree trunk straining above us at the sand-bank; it stirred and pushed, the water rilling around it, and we stood back, silent now, waiting, while the water pushed above and ate away below."
• "It would have been no loss to the country, if he had been drowned when his ship, in going to Scotland to fetch his family, struck on a sand-bank, and was lost with two hundred souls on board."