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riverbank

n. A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.

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riverbank

n. the bank of a river [syn: riverside]

Gazetteer
Riverbank, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 15826
Housing Units (2000): 4698
Land area (2000): 3.108207 sq. miles (8.050218 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.082329 sq. miles (0.213230 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.190536 sq. miles (8.263448 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61068
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.731272 N, 120.943653 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 95367
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Riverbank

Riverbank or river bank may refer to:

  • Bank (geography), or stream bank, the bank of a river

Usage examples of "riverbank".

Eagle Hunting camp, Four Bears stood on the riverbank and watched the white men come shoreward in their red and white canoes, and what was happening was real after all, but more exciting even than the dream of First Man.

When Four Bears waded ashore with the hat, the big white man was just leaping from the prow of the canoe onto the riverbank, a very agile leap for a man so large, and Four Bears went toward him with the wet hat and got a good look at the big man.

Riverbank there were only three races of people, and the closest anyone came to being black was during the summer when brown buffalos ran practically naked in the sweltering heat of the San Joaquin Valley.

There are hundreds of singers from Juarez, thousands of my sisters, my cousins, my aunts and the seven Chicanas who graduated with me from Riverbank Grammar School.

It seemed entirely possible that in a town such as this, a person might walk along the riverbank one bright afternoon and simply disappear, swallowed up in a tangle of chokeberry and woodbine.

Frank replied as he happily watched the Eastside riverbank scooting by.

Another man, a city councilman named Muhammad Alagbe, handed out hand phasers to each of the volunteers who would be stationed along the riverbank, with members of the New Ibadan civic patrol, to fire at any mats of growth on the opposite bank in order to prevent the greenery from spreading across the water.

Once in a while an old man resting on one of the benches the Jaycees years ago--when downtown Lassington had a Jaycee chapter--had placed beside the brick walkway on the riverbank would wave.

Joe Schmoe with a mortgage, fishing along the riverbanks, and what do you snag but a bag full of a fortune in cash?

One last glimpse at the riverbank showed the two German tanks withdrawing.

Looking over to the riverbank, I saw Usara still prowling, frowning and gesturing with his hands as he argued with himself.

The Brattles huddled together on the riverbank just above the turbulent waters of the Shelomoth, dozing fitfully under their blankets.

Here, too, were insects, snails, frogs, salamanders, snakes, creatures who had endured in burrows and riverbanks or deep holes.

Now there was plenty of daylight to see in the distance King Aeetes in his chariot, pulled by giant cameloids, at the head of a body of troops, chasing them along the riverbank.

On the riverbank a hundred yards away lay his little fleet of coracles with their cargoes, and a big, new two-wheeled wagon.