What is "mudbanks"

Usage examples of "mudbanks".

Torcello, nor suggest what the tower perfectly expressed, how its roots came up out of the remote and unpathetic past, pre-Venetian, still aware of the Serenissima as a conglomeration of mudbanks hardly higher than the surface of the lagoon.

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.

Fish did not abound as formerly, of course, but even mudbanks supported crupshells and other edible mollusqs.

Soon they were walking on rock again, rippled and curved like mudbanks in a stream.

Water was lighter over shoals and mudbanks, of which the area looked to have more than its share.

On the flat stretches of water that flooded the mudbanks at the creek mouths, Sharpe could see the black shapes of waterfowl.

From far off, where the rising tide raced over the long mudbanks of the shore, there came, like a distant battle dimly heard, the sound of seething water.

The waves beat at the mudbanks behind Sharpe, water sucked and gurgled in the creek bed, then she pulled her hands free, rubbed her face, and began talking.