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claybanks

claybanks is the plural of claybank.

Meaning of claybank

Noun

claybank (countable and uncountable, plural claybanks)

  1. A bank of clay.
  2. (US) 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.1916, William Dean Howells, chapter I, in The Leatherwood God
    1. (US, broadly, uncountable) Dun; a 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.1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “‘Next to Reading Matter’”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 82

Questions about claybanks

What is claybanks the plural of?
Claybanks is the plural of claybank.

Words near claybanks in the dictionary

  1. clay tablets
  2. clay up
  3. clay-cold
  4. clay-colored thrush
  5. claybank
  6. claybanks
  7. Claybaugh
  8. Claybaughs
  9. claybed
  10. claybeds
  11. claybeg

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