mudbank

Etymology

From mud + bank.

mudbank means an area of mud, possibly submerged, near the edge of a body of water. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

noun

An area of mud, possibly submerged, near the edge of a body of water.“Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them.”