What is "mudbank"

Usage examples of "mudbank".

Now we were in the ultimate reach of the river, and now at last we grounded upon the first mudbank of the swamp.

Three times in an hour we found ourselves stranded on a mudbank, and on the third occasion Richard let slip the compass as we struggled to thrust the boat free.

As things were, it seemed likely that we would grope our weary way from mudbank to mudbank until the dawn sucked up the mist and left us in full view.

Richard said, and I saw that the rowing boat nearest to us was on a mudbank, for two of the men were knee-deep in the water, trying to push her off.

I took my blanket bundle in one hand and put my free arm about his waist so that he could lean on me as we moved slowly up the mudbank to the shore.

Then, his body anchored firmly on the narrow mudbank edging it, he drank and drank.

Subject vessel ran slightly aground on mudbank in subject area on subject date at 0932.

To attempt it was to go aground on a mudbank or nose into a blind slough.

And the aromas coming in grew stranger, blending into the oddest, outdoor, watery, fishy, mudbank kind of smell.

Before he could think to wonder, he focused on the mist rising from the soaked mudbank, rising and knotting in the shadows, dissolving in the air.

Sumner followed the boy back along the mudbank to where a diminutive pair of pants and a shirt were flapping in the wind.

Against a wickerwork of roots buttressing the mudbank was his flatboat.

He sat on a mudbank encrusted with alkali and watched the skyfires bristle.

The lagoon was neither one thing nor the other, for its waters were a mixture of salt and fresh, while its shallows, mudbanks and reedy patches made it half land rather than true water.

One of the lines they had severed had been that by which the big lantern had been hoist to and held at the masthead, and when it came plunging down on deck, it had smashed and the oil spreading out from it had been fired by the still-lit wick to confront the crewmen and officers who came spilling out from the passages with an immediate concern that, for the moment, occupied them so thoroughly that they did not at once notice the fact that the ship was no longer secured by its anchor and was drifting with the river current, stern-foremost, down toward the treacherous bars and mudbanks just above the mouth of the Rio Oso.