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claybank

noun

Etymology

From clay + bank.

  1. derived from *bʰeg-✻
  2. derived from *bankiz✻
  3. derived from *banki✻
  4. derived from bank
  5. derived from banca
  6. derived from banque
  7. inherited from banke
  8. compounded as claybank — “clay + bank”

Definitions

  1. A dun-coloured horse.

    • Reverdy made one action of throwing his leg over the claybank’s back to the ground, and slipping the bridle over the smooth peg left from the limb of the young tree-trunk which formed one of the posts of the porch.

  2. Dun

    Dun; brownish-yellow.

    • I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA