Home › Words › C › cutbankcutbankcutbank means the outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.EtymologyFrom cut + bank.nounThe outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.e.g.“That particular day, walking along the streambed by the church, they came to a fresh cutbank where the earth had caved.” — 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 154:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.creekbank 69% match — The bank of a creek. vs cutbank →banklet 58% match — A little bank (of a stream etc.). vs cutbank →brink 57% match — The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge. vs cutbank →binnekill 57% match — The backwater portion of a stream or remnant of an old stream bed. vs cutbank →benchland 55% match — A bench (thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by slopes). vs cutbank →streamside 54% match — Located near or bordering a stream. vs cutbank →roadbank 54% match — A roadside bank of earth, typically in a rural environment. vs cutbank →downcutting 54% match — An erosion process that deepens a channel by removing material from a stream's bed or a valley's floor. vs cutbank →