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seabank en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English see-banke, se-banke, see banke, equivalent to sea + bank.

Meanings

1. A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
   • Typically, aerial photography of areas of seabanks shows a complex pattern of banks and counter-walls […] 2009, Peter Murphy, The English Coast: A History and a Prospect, page 55:
   • So strong is the barrier which these sea-borne sands oppose to the river-borne ooze, that as soon as a seabank is built — as the projectors of the Victoria County have built them — across any part of the estuary, the mud caught by it soon 'warps' the space within into firm and rich dry land. c. 1860, Charles Kingsley, The Fens:
2. The seashore.

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